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Geographic Range [top]
Range Description: This species is known from northeast India and Myanmar (e.g. Fraser 1936). Although it has been reported from Bangladesh, and its occurrence there is certainly possible, the source of the record is not known and consider it requires confirmation. There appears to be no reliable records since the 1930s.
Countries occurrence:
Native:
India (Assam, West Bengal); Myanmar
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Population [top]
Population: There are few records of this species and all those that are reliable are more than 70 years old. However this is as likely to be due to a lack of expert sampling in northeast India and Myanmar as to any decline in the species or genuine rarity; nothing can be reliably be inferred from the paucity of records.
Current Population Trend: Unknown
Additional data:
?Population severely fragmented: No
Habitat and Ecology [top]
Habitat and Ecology: The species breeds in marshes and small weedy pools and tanks in forest areas.
Systems: Terrestrial; Freshwater
Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat: Unknown
Threats [top]
Major Threat(s): More data are needed before any threats that this species might face can be assessed. Deforestation caused by clearance for agriculture and forestry,as well as hydropower development, are significant threats across large parts of the region, especially in hill areas, but the impact of this on the known localities of the species is not known.
Conservation Actions [top]
Conservation Actions: There is an urgent need for fresh data on this species, which will only be obtained through extensive expert sampling in northeast India and Myanmar.
Citation: Sharma, G. & Dow, R.A. 2010. Amphithemis vacillans. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T167260A6319340. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T167260A6319340.en. Downloaded on 15 January 2016.
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