Something Precious.......

Lately, I spotted a rare dragonfly species - Phyllothemis sp. In the Pocket Book of Dragonflies of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore (Orr 2005), the species status of Phyllothemis in Peninsular Malaysia remains unclear. Orr (2005) suspects the Phyllothemis species from Peninsular Malaysia is eltoni. In his pocket book, Orr (2005) narrated that only one specimen has been recorded for Peninsular Malaysia. Phyllothemis eltoni is distributed from Myanmar to Thailand. There is another species from Sumatra, Indonesia - P. raymondi. Both the Phyllothemis species look alike with only slight differences on facial marking and anal appendages. With the Phyllothemis sp. recorded by me, Dr. A.G. Orr and I are trying to solve the mistery of Phyllothemis species from Peninsular Malaysia.........