black sea red data book - Department of Biology

Epallage fatime (Charpentier, 1840)
'synonyms: Agrion fatime Charpentier, 1840: 132; Epallage fatime St. Quentin, 1965
531-552.
Common names: None.
Order ODONATA
Family EUPHAEIDAE
Taxonomic description. Total body length 45-51 mm. Length of hindwing 35-37.5
mm. Eyes hemispherical. Wings equally shaped, densely reticulated, wholly
transparent except for darkened wingtips; the latter marked by a brown half-moon
spot. Sexual dimorphism in body colour. Male: thorax olive-green; abdomen from
black to olive-green, covered by a blue-greyish film of pruinosity. Female: thorax
yellow-brown, with black stripes; abdominal segments each with a broad black dorsal
stripe, divided medially by a yellow line, powdered in blue-grey. Abdomen of male
and female relatively slender, nearly cylindrical.
IUCN Status
World level: NE
Black Sea Regional level: DD
Subregion level: VU
Distribution. The only representative of an otherwise Oriental family, occurring in
the south of the Iranian-Turanian subregion and the east of the Mediterranean, viz. the
Anatolia and European part of Turkey, south-eastern Bulgaria, Greece and
Macedonia.
Habitat type, Critical habitats, Limiting factors. Small rivers and brooks of the
plain and in hilly land. Bulgaria is at the limits of its range, where the habitats
adjacent to the Strandzha Mts.-Black Sea shores are threatened because of
urbanisation and the uncontrolled use of the region's water resources.
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