Rhodothemis rufa (Rambur, 1842) (Fig. 8) Material Examined. 3♀♀, Karnali province, Surkhet district, Bulbule lake (28°34'56.17"N, 81°37'10.38"E, 646 m a.s.l.), 6-vi-2023. Coll. M. Sharma. Field diagnosis (♀). Thorax reddish-brown on the sides and more blackish-brown on the dorsum, with citron-yellow stripe markings extending to the first abdominal segment. Rusty brown with a mid-dorsal yellow stripe extending from the base of the head to the segment 4 of the abdomen. Distribution. Austria, Bangladesh, China, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, and Sri Lanka (Kalkman & Orr, 2014; Zhang, 2017; Kalkman et al., 2020; Current study).

Published as part of Sharma, Manoj, Oli, Buddhi Ram & Gautam, Ishan, 2024, Dragonflies and Damselflies (Insecta, Odonata) from the western region of Nepal with new records of four species, pp. 535-546 in Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10 (3) on page 538, DOI: 10.61186/jibs.10.3.535, http://zenodo.org/record/17023896