Red-Striped Black Bambootail

Red-Striped Black Bambootail

Prodasineura verticalis

Daily sighting probability ~20% · Possible
at Thiruvananthapuram

In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%

7 Verified sightings at Thiruvananthapuram
13 In all 2 parks From 2019 to 2026
November Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Red-Striped Black Bambootail

Prodasineura verticalis is a damselfly in the family Platycnemididae. It is commonly known as the red-striped black bambootail or black bambootail. Prodasineura verticalis can be found in these Asian countries, which are China, Guangxi, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Peninsular Malaysia Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.

This damselfly species has six subspecies. The following are the subspecies. Prodasineura verticalis andamanensis (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) Prodasineura verticalis annandalei (South India) Prodasineura verticalis burmanensis

Prodasineura verticalis delia Prodasineura verticalis humeralis (often treated as a distinct species) Prodasineura verticalis verticalis It is medium size damselfly with black-capped brown eyes. Its hindwings are about 19–20 mm and the abdomen about 30 mm. The male of this damselfly is mostly black with red and yellow stripes on its thorax and small yellow spots on the abdomen. The pterostigma or the wing spot is diamond-shaped and is dark brown in colour. Abdomen is black with segments 3 to 6 have small base-dorsal yellow spots. Remaining segments are unmarked. The female... Wikipedia →

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Gunung Leuser National Park 🇮🇩 Indonesia
~10%
2 Kinabalu Park 🇲🇾 Malaysia
~10%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Thiruvananthapuram 🇮🇳 India
~20%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Red-Striped Black Bambootail in Thiruvananthapuram?

Possible

About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Striped Black Bambootail sighting in Thiruvananthapuram on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 73rd most-seen of the 112 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Red-Striped Black Bambootail in Thiruvananthapuram?

February–March and November

In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Striped Black Bambootail in Thiruvananthapuram on a given day, against under 5% in May, July, September–October and December, the lowest months.

What time of day is best to see a Red-Striped Black Bambootail?

Between 8 and 11 am

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-Striped Black Bambootail sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.

Where else can you see a Red-Striped Black Bambootail?

Only Thiruvananthapuram, in our data

Thiruvananthapuram is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Red-Striped Black Bambootail sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.

Where does the Red-Striped Black Bambootail sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Red-Striped Black Bambootail is recorded against all the insects logged in Thiruvananthapuram (7 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.

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