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{{Short description|Species of damselfly}}
{{Taxobox
| image = Platycnemididae-Kadavoor-2018-08-16-001.jpg
| image_caption = male
| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |author1=Dow, R.A.| title = ''Caconeura risi'' | volume= 2009| page = e.T163585A5619274| year = 2009}}</ref>
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| ordo = [[Odonata]]
| familia = [[Platycnemididae]]
| genus = ''[[Caconeura]]''
| species = '''''C. risi'''''
| binomial = ''Caconeura risi''
| binomial_authority = ([[Frederic Charles Fraser|Fraser]], 1931)
| synonyms =
*''Indoneura risi'' {{small|Fraser, 1931}}
}}

'''''Caconeura risi'''''<ref name=wol>{{World Odonata List}}</ref><ref name=iucn/> is a [[damselfly]] species in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Platycnemididae]]. 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=96–97}}</ref>

==Description and habitat==
It is a medium sized damselfly with black=capped blue eyes. Its thorax is black on dorsum and there are a pair of narrow and slightly curved azure blue antehumeral stripes. Base is azure blue on the sides, marked with a black stripe which occupies half of the posterior border of the thorax. Wings are transparent with black, quadrate shaped [[pterostigma]]. Abdomen is black with azure blue marks on segment 1 and 2. Segment 3 to 7 have narrow 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.<ref name=Fraser/>

It can be distinguished from other species in this genus by its small size, by having the under surface of the head blue, and by the tiny spine near the base of the superior anal appendages.<ref name=Fraser/>

It breeds in lowland 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=[https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata1/page/n271 258]-259|url=https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata1}}</ref><ref name=Fraser-WG2>{{cite book|author=C FC Lt. Fraser|author-link=Frederic Charles Fraser|title=Additions to the Survey of the Odonate (Dragonfly) Fauna of Western India, with Descriptions of Nine New Species|year=1931|pages=469–471|url=http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/033/04/0443-0474.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/226753|title=Caconeura risi Fraser, 1931|publisher=India Biodiversity Portal|access-date=2017-03-10}}</ref>

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

== References ==
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==External links==
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[[Category:Platycnemididae]]
[[Category:Insects of India]]
[[Category:Insects described in 1931]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Frederic Charles Fraser]]

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