Granite Ghost (Bradinopyga geminata)



 It is native to IndiaSri Lanka and Thailand, where it is a common and widespread species.

It is a medium-sized dragonfly with brown-capped grey eyes. Its thorax is ashy grey in appearance, marbled, and peppered with black in a very irregular manner. Wings are transparent and black at the center and pure white at distal and proximal ends.  Female is similar to the male.

Taking advantage of its well-developed camouflage, it always rests flat on slab rock or cement-plastered walls, where it almost invisible. Adults occupy habitat near water bodies, such as pools, irrigation channels, wells, and containers with standing water. It breeds in rainy hollows in the rocks or in wells and small cemented tanks.

The species has been studied as a predator of the disease-carrying Yellow Fever Mosquito (Aedes aegypti). The larvae of the dragonfly consume the larvae of the mosquito in the standing-water habitat types that both occupy.


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