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{{Short description|Species of dragonfly}}
{{Taxobox
| image = Hylaeothemis indica-Silent Valley-2016-08-14-001.jpg
| image_caption = male
| status = DD
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |author1=Dow, R.A.| title = ''Hylaeothemis indica'' | volume= 2009| page = e.T163699A5637863 | year = 2009| doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T163699A5637863.en }}</ref>
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| ordo = [[Odonata]]
| familia = [[Libellulidae]]
| genus = ''[[Hylaeothemis]]''
| species = '''''H. apicalis'''''
| binomial = ''Hylaeothemis apicalis''
| binomial_authority = Fraser, 1924
| synonyms={{small|''Hylaeothemis indica'' Fraser, 1946}}
}}

'''''Hylaeothemis apicalis'''''<ref name=Fraser-WG/><ref name=wol>{{World Odonata List}}</ref> or the '''Blue Hawklet'''<ref>https://www.indianodonata.org/sp/590/Hylaeothemis-indica</ref> is a species of [[dragonfly]] in the family [[Libellulidae]], [[endemic]] to [[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=328–329}}</ref>

[[Frederic Charles Fraser|Fraser]] described ''Hylaeothemis indica'' in 1946 from specimens from the [[Western Ghats]] of [[India]].<ref name="Fraser-Hylaeothemis_indica">{{cite journal |last1=Fraser |first1=F. C. |title=Hylaeothemis indica, a new species of oriental libelluline (order Odonata). |journal=Proc. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. |date=1946 |volume=15 |issue=7/8 |pages=97–100}}</ref> Previously this species has been treated as ''[[Hylaeothemis fruhstorferi|H. fruhstorferi]]''; a species probably actually confined to [[Sri Lanka]].<ref name=iucn/><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. III|publisher=Taylor and Francis|location=Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London|year=1936|pages=[https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata3/page/n272 261]–262|url=https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata3}}</ref> Fraser had also described a subspecies ''Hyaleothemis fruhstorferi apicalis'' in 1924.<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=430|url=http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/026/05/0423-0522.pdf}}</ref> Therefore, ''H. fruhstorferi apicalis'' and ''H. indica'' are synonymous and as the taxon ''H. f. apicalis'' precedes the taxon ''H. indica'', the correct name is ''Hylaeothemis apicalis''.<ref name="Kimmins">{{cite journal |last1=Kimmins |first1=D. E. |title=A list of the Odonata types described by F. C. Fraser, now in the British Museum (Natural History) |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum |date=1966 |volume=18|pages=196–197 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2304021#page/284/mode/1up |access-date=10 October 2018}}</ref><ref name="Odonata-South-Asia-2020">{{Cite journal|title=Checklist of the dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka|journal=Zootaxa|url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4849.1.1|last1=Kalkman|first1=V. J.|date=2020-09-08|volume=4849|pages=001–084|last2=Babu|first2=R.|last3=Bedjanič|first3=M.|last4=Conniff|first4=K.|last5=Gyeltshenf|first5=T.|last6=Khan|first6=M. K.|last7=Subramanian|first7=K. A.|last8=Zia|first8=A.|last9=Orr|first9=A. G.|issue=1|publisher=Magnolia Press, Auckland, New Zealand|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4849.1.1|pmid=33056748|isbn=978-1-77688-047-8|issn=1175-5334|hdl=10072/398768|s2cid=222819662|hdl-access=free}}</ref>

==Description and habitat==
It is a medium-sized dragonfly with bluish-green eyes. Its thorax is black, marked with pale blue. There are two fine mid-dorsal stripes and a humeral stripe broadening below. Laterally blue, with a rather broad black stripe which bifurcates below
to form an inverted Y. Abdomen is slim, black, marked with pale blue. There is a large lateral spot and a triangular apical mid-dorsal spot on segment 1. There is a fine mid-dorsal stripe, a large subdorsal apical spot and a large ventro-lateral spot on segment 2. Segments 3 to 6 have lateral stripes. Segment 7 has a large dorsal spot on the basal three-fourths. Anal appendages are black. Female is similar to the male; but greenish-yellow instead of blue, as in the sub-adult male.<ref name=Fraser/>

It is found in small colonies closely associated with forested marshes. It breeds in the seepage from marshes along the banks of mountain streams and usually found resting on the foliage beside streams.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/227412|title=Hylaeothemis indica Fraser, 1946|publisher=India Biodiversity Portal|access-date=2017-02-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.indianodonata.org/sp/590/Hylaeothemis-indica|title=Hylaeothemis indica Fraser, 1946|publisher=Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies|access-date=2017-02-13}}</ref>

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

==References==
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