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{{Short description|Species of damselfly}}
{{Taxobox
| image = Davidraju IMG 8288.jpg
| image_caption = male
| image2 = Elattoneura tetrica (Laidlaw, 1917) female.jpg
| image2_caption = female
| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |author1=Kakkasery, F.| title = ''Elattoneura tetrica'' | volume= 2011| page = e.T175183A7118694| year = 2011}}</ref>
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| ordo = [[Odonata]]
| familia = [[Platycnemididae]]
| genus = ''[[Elattoneura]]''
| species = '''''E. tetrica'''''
| binomial = ''Elattoneura tetrica''
| binomial_authority = (Laidlaw, 1917)
| synonyms =
*''Disparoneura tetrica'' {{small|Laidlaw, 1917}}
}}

'''''Elattoneura tetrica''''',<ref name=wol>{{World Odonata List}}</ref><ref name=iucn/> '''black and yellow bambootail'''<ref name=ibp/> is a [[damselfly]] species in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Platycnemididae]]. It is [[endemic]] to [[Western Ghats]] in [[India]].<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=110–111}}</ref>

==Description and habitat==
It is a medium sized damselfly with black-capped pale blue eyes beneath, marked with a black equatorial belt. Its thorax is metallic velvet-black on dorsum. The anterior border of mesepimeron and the lower part of sides are creamy white, separated with a broad stripe in black. The lower part may get [[Pruinescence|pruinosed]]. Its abdomen is black, pruinosed on the basal segments in adults. Segments 3 to 6 have thin baso-dorsal bluish-white annules. Anal appendages are black.<ref name=Fraser/>

Female is similar to the male; but paler eyes and dull colored thotax. Teneral males look like the female in colour and markings; adult lose almost all their markings due to [[pruinescence]].<ref name=Fraser/>

It is closely associated with submontane streams and lakes where it breeds.<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/n248 235]-236|url=https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata1}}</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=503|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/227058|title=Elattoneura tetrica Laidlaw, 1917 |publisher=India Biodiversity Portal|access-date=2017-03-11}}</ref>

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

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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[[Category:Platycnemididae]]
[[Category:Insects of India]]
[[Category:Insects described in 1917]]

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