Guwahati, Oct. 14 -- A damselfly with a striking black body and flashes of blue along its abdomen has turned out to be a species new to science, helping researchers resolve a taxonomic puzzle that persisted for years across Northeast India and Bangladesh.

Named Dysphaea assamensis, the species was formally described by Rima Amsih of Dibrugarh University, Arajush Payra of Dr Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University, K. A. Subramanian of the Zoological Survey of India and Samrat Sengupta of Debraj Roy College (Autonomous), Assam.

Their findings, published in the journal Zootaxa establish that the insect, long confused with another species, is distinct.

The discovery also highlights how much remains to be documented in the biodiversity...