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Dragonflies are very conspicuous and brightly colored insects have long, slenderabdomen, commonly known as aerial predators, hunting by sight. These are mostly found around the vicinity of freshwater habitats like rivers, streams, marshes, lakes and even small pools and rice f ields. As predators it plays an important role in wetland and terrestrial food chains.Dragonflies are reliable indicators of overall ecosystem health, and also good Bio control agents (Andrew , 2008;. The order Odonata includes both the dragonflies and damselflies, about 5,952 species and subspecies of Odonata belonging to 652 genera are documented world-wide (Schorr & Paulson, 2014). The taxonomy of Indian Odonata is well worked out and described for almost all the reported species (

During the course of faunistic survey of Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, Chandrapur District, Maharashtra in April 2000, we encountered altogether five specimens of Croce filipennis Westwood, a member of family Nemopteridae of order Neuroptera. Again one of us (SST) could collect a single specimen of the same species from Lakhani Village, Bhandara District, Maharashtra (approximately 150 km. away from Tadoba) on 27 April 2000. Earlier, in 1998 we had collected a single mutilated specimen of the same species from Pune. Though seldom seen, all these collections reveal the probability of wide distribution of this species in Maharashtra State.