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| image = Caconeura gomphoides.jpg<br />
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| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |author1=Kakkasery, F.| title = ''Caconeura gomphoides'' | volume= 2011| page = e.T175177A7117753| year = 2011}}</ref><br />
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
| classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
| ordo = [[Odonata]]<br />
| familia = [[Platycnemididae]]<br />
| genus = ''[[Caconeura]]''<br />
| species = '''''C. gomphoides'''''<br />
| binomial = ''Caconeura gomphoides''<br />
| binomial_authority = (Rambur, 1842)<br />
| synonyms = <br />
*''Argia gomphoides'' {{small|Rambur, 1842}}<br />
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'''''Caconeura gomphoides'''''<ref name=wol>{{World Odonata List}}</ref><ref name=iucn/> is a [[damselfly]] species in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Platycnemididae]]. It is [[endemic]] to high altitude peat [[bog]]s and grassy uplands in [[Nilgiri mountains|Nilgiris]].<ref name=iucn/><ref name=atlas>{{cite book |last1=K.A. |first1=Subramanian |last2=K.G. |first2=Emiliyamma |last3=R. |first3=Babu |last4=C. |first4=Radhakrishnan |last5=S.S. |first5=Talmale |title=Atlas of Odonata (Insecta) of the Western Ghats, India |date=2018 |publisher=Zoological Survey of India |isbn=9788181714954|pages=92–93}}</ref><br />
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==Description and habitat==<br />
It is a medium sized damselfly with black-capped blue eyes. Its thorax is black on dorsum and azure blue on the sides. There is a very narrow azure blue antehumeral stripe and a moderately broad black stripe on the postero-lateral suture on each side. Wings are transparent with reddish-brown [[pterostigma]], framed in thick black nervures. Abdomen is black with azure blue stripes on segment 1 and 2. Segment 3 to 6 have narrow basal rings in azure blue. Segments 8 to 10 are entirely azure blue. Female is similar to the male. It can be distinguished from all other species of this genus by the reddish-brown color of the pterostigma and by the mid-dorsal mark on segment 2. It is also comparatively short and thick than other similar species.<ref name=Fraser/><ref name="Laidlaw">{{cite journal |last1=Laidlaw |first1=F. F. |title=A list of the Dragonflies Recorded from the Indian Empire with Special Reference to the Collection of the Indian Museum |journal=Rec. Indian Mus |date=1917 |volume=13 |pages=347–348 |url=http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/013/06/0321-0348.pdf |access-date=18 October 2018}}</ref><br />
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It breeds in small streams in [[Nilgiri Mountains|Nilgiris]]. Commonly found in grassy [[Upland_and_lowland#Upland|upland]], clinging to ferns on the banks of small streams covered with grass.<ref name=Fraser>{{cite book|author=C FC Lt. Fraser|author-link=Frederic Charles Fraser|title=The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, Odonata Vol. I|publisher=Taylor and Francis|location=Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London|year=1933|pages=252–254|url=https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata1/page/n265}}</ref><ref name=Fraser-WG>{{cite book|author=C FC Lt. Fraser|author-link=Frederic Charles Fraser|title=A Survey of the Odonate (Dragonfly) Fauna of Western India with Special Remarks on the Genera Macromia and Idionyx and Descriptions of Thirty New Species|publisher=Zoological Survey of India. Volumes (Records)|year=1924|pages=505–506|url=http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/026/05/0423-0522.pdf}}</ref><ref name=ias>{{cite book|last=Subramanian|first=K. A.|title=Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India - A Field Guide|year=2005|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/Publications/Overview/Dragonflies}}</ref><ref name=ibp>{{cite web<br />
|url=http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/226751|title=Caconeura gomphoides Rambur, 1842|publisher=India Biodiversity Portal|access-date=2017-03-10}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of odonates of India]]<br />
* [[List of odonata of Kerala]]<br />
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