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{{short description|Species of dragonfly}}{{Taxobox
| name = Saffron Shadow Dancer
| image = DSC 2947 Idionyx saffronata.jpg
| image_caption =
| status = DD
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="IUCN"/>
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| ordo = [[Odonata]]
| familia = [[Synthemistidae]]
| genus = ''[[Idionyx]]''
| species = '''''I. saffronata'''''
| binomial = ''Idionyx saffronata''
| binomial_authority = [[Frederic Charles Fraser|Fraser]], 1924
| synonyms =
}}

'''''Idionyx saffronata''''',<ref name=wol>{{World Odonata List}}</ref> or '''Saffron Shadow Dancer''' is a species of [[dragonfly]] in the family [[Synthemistidae]]. 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=272–273}}</ref><ref name="IUCN">{{cite iucn |author1=Dow, R.A.| title = ''Idionyx saffronata'' | volume= 2009| page = e.T163732A5643070| year = 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/227442|title=Idionyx saffronata Fraser 1924 | Species}}</ref>

==Description and habitat==
It is a small dragonfly with emerald-green eyes. Its thorax is brilliant metallic green with a narrow medial oblique stripe on each side. The posterior half of the metepimeron is yellow. Beneath the side is striped black and yellow. Abdomen is black. The first and second segments marked narrowly along the ventral borders with citron-yellow. Segments 7 to 10 are bordered with bright yellow. Segment 10 strongly keeled but without a dorsal spine. Anal appendages are black.<ref name=Fraser/>

[[Frederic Charles Fraser|Fraser]] (1936) states that the species occurs of altitudes of 3,000 ft and more. Nothing else is known about the habitat or ecology of this species.<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/n233 222]-223|url=https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata3}}</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=458–460|url=http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/026/05/0423-0522.pdf}}</ref>

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

==References==
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[[Category:Synthemistidae]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Frederic Charles Fraser]]

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