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Geographic Range [top]
Range Description: The species is known from Sumatra, including Belitung, and Borneo (e.g. Lieftinck 1954), Tawi Tawi in the Sulu region of the Philippines (Hämäläinen and Müller 1997), Singapore (e.g. Tang et al. 2010), Peninsular Malaysia (e.g. Orr 2005), Thailand including southern Thailand and Chantaburi Province in southeastern Thailand (Hämäläinen and Pinratana 1999, Kitagawa and Katatani 2002) and Lao PDR. It has been recorded from Cambodia at Seima Protection Forest in Mondulkiri (Roland et al. 2010). It is also reported from Singapore, certain Indonesian islands, the Philippines (Tsuda 2000; Orr 2005, cited in Roland et al. 2010). It is likely to occur in Myanmar and Viet Nam.
Countries occurrence:
Native:
Cambodia; Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sumatera); Lao Peoples Democratic Republic; Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak); Philippines; Singapore; Thailand
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Population [top]
Population: Orr (2005) states of Malaysian populations that this species is “local and generally uncommon”, but although it can be rather local in occurrence it is usually common where it occurs. It is probably under-recorded, especially as it is easily mistaken for the very common Brachydiplax chalybea, which occurs in similar habitats.
Current Population Trend: Unknown
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Habitat and Ecology [top]
Habitat and Ecology: Orr (2005) gives the habitat of this species as “weedy ponds and lowland marshes”; additionally it has been found to be quite common on slower parts of a rather open lowland stream near Kuching in Sarawak.
Systems: Terrestrial; Freshwater
Threats [top]
Major Threat(s): This species, that occurs in open and disturbed habitats, and does not appear to be threatened.
Conservation Actions [top]
Conservation Actions: No conservation measures appear to be needed for this species.
Citation: Dow, R.A. 2011. Aethriamanta gracilis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T171800A6803736. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T171800A6803736.en. Downloaded on 24 September 2018.
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