About Gynacantha dravida Lieftinck, 1960
This species is a large dragonfly distinguished by homogeneous dull brown and green colouring, long thin anal appendages, and crepuscular habits. Its main diet appears to consist of mosquitoes and microlepidoptera. During the daytime, it rests in dark thickets. Fully mature individuals develop bright blue and green colours very late in life, while young specimens are brown with some dark shades. Females match males exactly in colour and markings. It is very closely related to Gynacantha subinterrupta, and the two species are difficult to tell apart. They can be differentiated by the relative lengths of their superior and inferior anal appendages: in Gynacantha dravida, the inferior anal appendage is more than one-third the length of the superior anal appendage, while in Gynacantha subinterrupta it is less than one-third the length of the superior.
