Nososticta liveringa

Malachite Threadtail (Nososticta liveringa)

Inhabits streams, rivers and riverine lagoons

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• Disparoneurinae: Key couplet 2 of 23

• ○ Wing membrane hyaline or yellow

• Disparoneurinae: Key couplet 4 of 23

• ○ Antehumeral stripes ochraceus, with whitish, pale green or blue

• Disparoneurinae: Key couplet 6 of 23

• ○ Abdominal tergum 5 with at most narrow basal spot or spots occupying 10% or less the length of the tergum, tergum 8 pale only along lateral margin

• Disparoneurinae: Key couplet 7 of 23

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• ● Broad oval greenish to whitish spot beside each lateral ocellus
  ○ Antehumeral stripes pale green
  
  ⇒ species: Malachite Threadtail (Nososticta liveringa)

• Disparoneurinae: Key couplet 13 of 23

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• ● Posterior lobe of pronotum reflexed, scoop-shaped, strongly concave above, uniformly rounded to subtriangular with rounded apex

• Disparoneurinae: Key couplet 14 of 23

• ○ Abdominal tergum 1 dark brown or black above

• Disparoneurinae: Key couplet 16 of 23

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• ● Posterior lobe shallowly concave, subtriangular, almost equilateral from above, edges almost straight in profile

• Disparoneurinae: Key couplet 17 of 23

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• ● Antehumeral stripes broader, separated from lower end of dorsal carina by up to twice their width at that level
  
  ⇒ species: Malachite Threadtail (Nososticta liveringa)