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{{short description|Species of insect}}
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{{Taxobox
| image = Melanoneura bilineata 1.jpg
| image_caption = Male
| status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |author1=Subramanian, K.A.| title = ''Melanoneura bilineata'' | volume= 2011| page =e.T175151A7114038| year = 2011}}</ref>
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| ordo = [[Odonata]]
| familia = [[Platycnemididae]]
| genus = ''[[Melanoneura]]''
| species = '''''M. bilineata'''''
| binomial = ''Melanoneura bilineata''
| binomial_authority = [[Frederic Charles Fraser|Fraser]], 1922
}}

'''''Melanoneura bilineata'''''<ref name=wol>{{World Odonata List}}</ref><ref name=iucn/> is damselfly in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Platycnemididae]]. It is [[endemic]] to [[Western Ghats]] in [[India]], restricted to [[Kodagu]] and [[Wayanad]] districts.<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=118–119}}</ref>

==Description and habitat==
It is a medium-sized damselfly with black-capped blue eyes. Its thorax is black, marked with a narrow ante-humeral azure blue stripe and two broad blue stripes on the sides. Its abdomen is black, marked with azure blue broadly on the sides of the segments 1 and 2. Segments 3 to 6 are marked with tiny basal annules. Segments 8 to 10 are blue, marked with very narrow basal black rings. Female is similar to the male; but only matured adult has the blue marks. Others are marked with yellow or bluish-green.<ref name=Fraser/>

It is similar to ''[[Caconeura ramburi]]''; but can be distinguished by the absence of blue basal annules which is very broadly visible in ''C. ramburi''.<ref name=Fraser/>

It is known only from upper catchments of [[Kaveri]] river in [[Kodagu]] and western slopes of [[Wayanad]]. It is restricted to hill streams with good forest cover.<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/n273 260]-262|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=504–505|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/227698|title=Melanoneura bilineata Fraser, 1922 |publisher=India Biodiversity Portal|access-date=2017-03-13}}</ref><ref name=ifb>{{cite web
|url=http://www.indianodonata.org/sp/328/Melanoneura-bilineata|title=Melanoneura bilineata Fraser, 1922 |publisher=Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies|access-date=2017-03-13}}</ref>

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

== References ==
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==External links==
{{Wikispecies-inline|Melanoneura bilineata}}

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[[Category:Platycnemididae]]
[[Category:Insects of India]]
[[Category:Insects described in 1922]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Frederic Charles Fraser]]

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