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{{short description|Species of dragonfly}}
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{{Taxobox
| name = Gomphidia kodaguensis
| image = Gomphidia kodaguensis-Kadavoor-2016-06-15-003.jpg
| image_caption = Male
| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="IUCN">{{cite iucn |author1=Dow, R.A.| title = ''Gomphidia kodaguensis'' | volume= 2009| page = e.T163781A5650739| year = 2009}}</ref>
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| ordo = [[Odonata]]
| familia = [[Gomphidae]]
| genus = ''[[Gomphidia]]''
| species = '''''G. kodaguensis'''''
| binomial = ''Gomphidia kodaguensis''
| binomial_authority = [[Frederic Charles Fraser|Fraser]], 1923
| synonyms =
}}
'''''Gomphidia kodaguensis'''''<ref name=wol>{{World Odonata List}}</ref> is a species of [[dragonfly]] in the family [[Gomphidae]]. It is known only from the [[Western Ghats]] of [[India]].<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=218–219}}</ref>

==Description and habitat==
It is a large dragonfly with bottle-green eyes. Its thorax black, marked with yellow. There are two broad and oval greenish-yellow dorsal stripes, pointed below and not nearly meeting the meso-thoracic collar. There are two broad yellow stripes separated by a broad black stripe on each side. Abdomen is black, marked with yellow. Segment 1 has a fine apical dorsal ring. Segment 2 has a small oval dorsal spot on the basal two-thirds. Segment 3 to 6 have dorsal basal spots. Segment 7 has the basal half yellow. Segment 8 has a long transverse basal spot. Segment 9 is unmarked. Segment 10 has a dorsal spot covering the entire dorsum. Anal appendages are black. Female is similar to the male.<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=389–391|url=https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata2/page/n411}}</ref><ref name="Fraser-JBNHS">{{cite journal |last1=Fraser |first1=F. C. |title=Indian Dragonflies |journal=The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society |date=1923 |volume=29 |pages=671–672 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/183167#page/157/mode/1up}}</ref><ref name="IBP">{{Cite web|url=http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/227268|title=Gomphidia kodaguensis Fraser 1923 | Species}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indianodonata.org/sp/475/Gomphidia-kodaguensis|title=Gomphidia kodaguensis - Odonata of India}}</ref><ref>http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/occpapers/347/index.pdf</ref><ref>http://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/viewFile/197/306</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/222/355|doi = 10.11609/JoTT.o3641.5585-9|title = Further additions to the Odonata (Insecta) fauna of Goa, India|year = 2014|last1 = Rangnekar|first1 = Parag|last2 = Naik|first2 = Rohan|journal = Journal of Threatened Taxa|volume = 6|issue = 3|pages = 5585–5589}}</ref>

It is commonly found in streams and rivers in hilly and mountainous areas.<ref name=Fraser/>

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

==References==
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[[Category:Gomphidae]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Frederic Charles Fraser]]
[[Category:Insects described in 1923]]

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