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{{Taxobox<br />
| name = Euphaea cardinalis<br />
| image = Davidraju IMG 6013.jpg <br />
| image_caption= Male<br />
| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |author1=Kakkasery, F.|author2=Mitra, A.| title = ''Euphaea cardinalis'' | volume= 2010| page = e.T175194A7120246| year = 2010}}</ref><br />
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
| classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
| ordo = [[Odonata]]<br />
| subordo = [[Zygoptera]]<br />
| familia = [[Euphaeidae]]<br />
| genus = ''[[Euphaea]]''<br />
| species = '''''E. cardinalis'''''<br />
| binomial = ''Euphaea cardinalis''<br />
| binomial_authority = (Fraser, 1924) <br />
| synonyms =<br />
*''Indophaea cardinalis'' {{small|(Fraser, 1924)}}<br />
*''Pseudophaea cardinalis'' {{small|Fraser, 1924}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Euphaea cardinalis''''',<ref name=wol>{{World Odonata List}}</ref><ref name=iucn/> '''Travancore torrent dart''',<ref name=ibp/><ref name=ifb/> is a species of [[damselflies|damselfly]] in the family [[Euphaeidae]].<ref name=iucn/><br />
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This species was considered [[endemic]] to the [[Western Ghats]] (Fraser, 1934) and it was known to occur only in south of the [[Palghat Gap]].<ref name=Fraser/> But it was collected from [[Assam]] in 1979 (Mitra 2002).<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=84–85}}</ref><br />
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==Description and habitat==<br />
It is a medium sized damselfly with black head and brown-capped pale grey eyes. Its thorax is black, marked with bright ochreous-red antehumeral and humeral stripes. Lateral sides of the thorax in the base is red. Its all legs are red. Wings are broader than ''[[Euphaea dispar]]''. Fore-wings are transparent, merely enfumed with brown on the apices and almost in same length of the abdomen. Hindwings are transparent; but nearly half of the wings from the apices are broadly black. The black area of wings has steely-blue reflections in some lights. Abdomen is bright red up to the segment 6; apical third of segment 6 to the end segment are black. Anal appendages are black.<ref name=Fraser/><br />
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Female is short and robust; the ochreous-red of male is replaced with yellow colors. All wings are transparent, enfumed with black in adults. Abdomen is black with yellow lateral stripes up to segment 6. The yellow lateral stripes continued to segment 7. Segment 8 has a narrow and 9 has a broad yellow apical annule, covering dorsal half.<ref name=Fraser/><br />
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They breed in hill streams and usually find perched on boulders and riparian vegetation of 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. II|publisher=Taylor and Francis|location=Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London|year=1934|pages=[https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata2/page/n131 108]-110|url=https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata2}}</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 and Descriptions of Thirty New Species|year=1924|pages=512–513|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/266708|title=Euphaea cardinalis Fraser, 1924|publisher=India Biodiversity Portal|access-date=2017-03-07}}</ref><ref name=ifb>{{cite web<br />
|url=http://www.indianodonata.org/sp/278/Euphaea-cardinalis|title=Euphaea cardinalis Fraser, 1924|publisher=Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies|access-date=2017-03-07}}</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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