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{{Short description|Species of damselfly}}
{{Taxobox
| image = Platycnemididae-Silent Valley-2016-08-14-004.jpg
| image_caption = male
| image2 = Caconeura ramburi by Pagol Haowa.jpg
| image2_caption = female
| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |author1=Dow, R.A.| title = ''Caconeura ramburi'' | volume= 2009| page = e.T163596A5621033| year = 2009}}</ref>
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| ordo = [[Odonata]]
| familia = [[Platycnemididae]]
| genus = ''[[Caconeura]]''
| species = '''''C. ramburi'''''
| binomial = ''Caconeura ramburi''
| binomial_authority = ([[Frederic Charles Fraser|Fraser]], 1922)
| synonyms =
*''Indoneura ramburi'' {{small|Fraser, 1922}}
}}

'''''Caconeura ramburi'''''<ref name=wol>{{World Odonata List}}</ref><ref name=iucn/> is a [[damselfly]] species in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Platycnemididae]]. It is commonly known as the '''Coorg Bambootail'''<ref name=ibp/> or '''Indian blue bambootail'''.<ref name=ifb/> It is [[endemic]] to [[Western Ghats]].<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=94–95}}</ref>

==Description and habitat==
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 narrow black stripe on the postero-lateral suture on each side. Wings are transparent with black, diamond shaped [[pterostigma]]. Abdomen is black with azure blue stripes on segment 1 and 2. Segment 3 to 7 have broad basal rings in azure blue. Segments 8 to 10 are azure blue on dorsum, with black basal annules. The lateral side of segment 10 is black. Female is similar to the male; but the markings more greenish-blue or even yellow, except in very old specimens.<ref name=Fraser/>

It is larger and more slender insect than ''[[Caconeura gomphoides]]'' and breeding at a lower altitude. The broad blue basal
annules will help to distinguish it. The larger size, differently shaped pterostigma, the absence of a ventral spine on the base of the superior appendages, and the underside of the head entirely black, will help to distinguish it from ''[[Caconeura risi]]''.<ref name=Fraser/>

It breeds in forest streams. Commonly found perched on riparian vegetation along shaded streams.<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=254–256|url=https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata1/page/n267}}</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|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
|url=http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/226752|title=Caconeura ramburi Fraser, 1922|publisher=India Biodiversity Portal|access-date=2017-03-10}}</ref><ref name=ifb>{{cite web
|url=http://www.indianodonata.org/#!/sp/312/Caconeura-ramburi|title=Caconeura ramburi Fraser, 1922|publisher=Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies|access-date=2017-03-10}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of odonates of India]]
* [[List of odonata of Kerala]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Wikispecies-inline|Caconeura ramburi}}

{{Commonscat-inline|Caconeura ramburi}}

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[[Category:Platycnemididae]]
[[Category:Insects of India]]
[[Category:Insects described in 1922]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Frederic Charles Fraser]]

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