New Species29 Huhti 2025

Two New Damselflies with Shantanu Joshi

Shantanu Joshi is fascinated with creatures of all kinds, but especially damselflies, the small quick fliers of the order Odonata. In this episode he takes us deep into the forests of Northeast India, a place of immense beauty and interfering colonial history. Undersampling and poor specimen quality are a few reasons the diversity of this area is not well known, and Shantanu and his coauthors are determined to fill in the gaps. As with his project The Odonata of India, Shantanu shares in incredible detail the morphology, ecology, and even behaviors of these two new species, and discusses what their presence means for two unique and isolated habitats.

Shantanu’s paper “Description of Protosticta khasia sp. nov. and Yunnanosticta siangi sp. nov., with new records of P. samtsensis from Northeast India” is in volume 5448 of Zootaxa.

It can be found here: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5448.3.2

A transcript of this episode can be found here: Shantanu Joshi - Transcript

Check out Shantanu’s amazing website, Odonata of India: https://www.indianodonata.org/

And follow him on Instagram: @odonataofindia

New Species: Protosticta khasia and Yunnanosticta siangi

Episode image credit: Shantanu Joshi

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