taxonID	type	description	language	source
112E87DFFF8CFFD4FF95FABCFB571CE3.taxon	description	The use of long paraprocts and number of crossveins as diagnostic characters in L. patricia were most likely based on the key to the species of Lestes provided by Kosterin (2019). However, a year later the same author (Kosterin, 2020) published an errata to the keys that re- moved the relevance of both characters (with respect to L. patricia, see the same photos of its holotype that are provided here in Fig. 7), rendering the characters used by Bhakare et al. (2020) to substantiate their subspecies based on literature irrelevant. The males illustrated in Bhakare et al. (2020) indeed agree very well with the images of the holotype of L. patricia (Fig. 7). Since the type locality and the locality surveyed by Bhakare et al. (2020) are part of the Western Ghats mountain region there is no geographical support for recognizing a different subspecies either. Thus there are no conclusive characters to warrant a separate subspecies status for the population reported by Bhakare et al. (2020). We therefore find Lestes patricia taamrpatti to be a junior synonym of Lestes patricia (Lestes patricia = Lestes patricia taamrpattii syn. nov.).	en	Joshi, Shantanu, Sawant, Dattaprasad, Dalvi, Akshay, Koli, Yogesh, Haneef, Muhammed, Sanap, Rajesh, Kunte, Krushnamegh (2023): New records of Lestes nigriceps Fraser, 1924 (Odonata: Lestidae) from Maharashtra, India, with notes on L. patricia Fraser, 1924 and an updated key to Lestes of the Western Ghats, India. International Journal of Odonatology 26: 132-144, DOI: 10.48156/1388.2023.1917217, URL: https://doi.org/10.48156/1388.2023.1917217
112E87DFFF8EFFD6FF95F953FA021B98.taxon	description	1 ’. Synthorax with green metallic stripes .................... 4 2. Pterostigma unicolored .......................................... 3 2 ’. Pterostigma bicolored .............................. L. nodalis 3. Synthorax usually pale brown, unmarked. Variable in color from brown to pale blue or olivaceous; abdomen pale brown to dark brown .... L. concinnus 3 ’. Synthorax dorsally black with dark olivaceous stripes enclosing dark reddish brown mid-dorsal area .......................................................... L. patricia 4. Synthorax with dorsal metallic stripes deeply scalloped or crenulated on the outer sides, ofen obscured by pruinescence ...................................... 5 4 ’. Synthorax with the dorsal metallic stripe uniform or expanded posteriorly ......................................... 6 5. Small, with abdomen 30 – 32 mm and hind-wing 20 – 21 mm; sides of thorax plain yellowish green; S 10 mostly black ................................ L. praemorsus 5 ’. Larger, with abdomen 36 mm and hind-wing 27 mm; a green to olivaceous band on sides of thorax; S 10 blue .................................... L. dorothea 6. Dorsal green metallic stripe of uniform width ........ 7 6 ’. Dorsal green metallic stripe expanded posteriorly. 8 7. Vertex of head pale brown; synthorax with very narrow metallic green stripes enclosing a pale brown area; no black markings on sides of synthorax; posterior half of S 9 white with a black central stripe .......................................... L. viridulus 7 ’. Vertex of head metallic dark with small irregular brown spots posteriorly; synthorax with broad metallic green stripes enclosing a black mid-dorsal area; 2 black spots on thorax on each side; posterior margin of S 9 dorsally with a pair of small pale blue triangular markings ....... L. nigriceps 8. Synthorax with broad metallic green stripes, slightly expanded posteriorly; 5 black spots on thorax on each side .......................... L. malabaricus 8 ’. Synthorax with a distinct ‘ J’ - or hockey-stick shaped metallic green stripe, thinner anteriorly; about 10 black spots on thorax on each side ........... .................................................................... L. elatus	en	Joshi, Shantanu, Sawant, Dattaprasad, Dalvi, Akshay, Koli, Yogesh, Haneef, Muhammed, Sanap, Rajesh, Kunte, Krushnamegh (2023): New records of Lestes nigriceps Fraser, 1924 (Odonata: Lestidae) from Maharashtra, India, with notes on L. patricia Fraser, 1924 and an updated key to Lestes of the Western Ghats, India. International Journal of Odonatology 26: 132-144, DOI: 10.48156/1388.2023.1917217, URL: https://doi.org/10.48156/1388.2023.1917217
