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{{short description|Species of dragonfly}}
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{{Taxobox
| name = Melligomphus acinaces
| image = Onychogomphus acinaces.jpg
| image_caption = Male
| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 11 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Dow, R.A. |date=2009 |title=''Melligomphus acinaces'' |volume=2009 |page=e.T163645A5629088 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T163645A5629088.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref>
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| ordo = [[Odonata]]
| familia = [[Gomphidae]]
| genus = ''[[Melligomphus]]''
| species = '''''M. acinaces'''''
| binomial = Melligomphus acinaces
| binomial_authority = (Laidlaw, 1922)
| synonyms_ref=<ref name=wol/>
| synonyms = {{small|''Onychogomphus acinaces'' Laidlaw, 1922}}
}}
'''''Melligomphus acinaces'''''<ref name=wol>{{World Odonata List}}</ref> is a species of [[dragonfly]] in the family [[Gomphidae]]. It is [[endemic]] to the streams of [[Western Ghats]] of [[India]].<ref name="iucn status 11 November 2021" /><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=244–245}}</ref> This species was originally described as a ''[[Onychogomphus]]''. However, both the pattern and the shape of the anal appendages do not fit ''Onychogomphus'' but are very close to those
of the species placed in ''[[Melligomphus]]''.<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.|publisher=Magnolia Press, Auckland, New Zealand|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4849.1.1|isbn=978-1-77688-047-8|issn=1175-5334|hdl=10072/398768|hdl-access=free}}</ref>

==Description and habitat==
It is a medium-sized dragonfly with bottle-green eyes. Its thorax black, marked with greenish-yellow. There is a mesothoracic collar and an oblique ante-humeral stripe. Sides are greenish-yellow with a broad median black stripe on each side. Abdomen is black, marked with greenish-yellow. Segment 1 has an apical triangular spot, and an apical lateral spot. Segment 2 has two large yellow lateral spots. Segment 3 has a large basal spot. Segments 4 to 6 have smaller spots. Segment 7 has its basal half yellow. Segment 8 has only a basal spot on the sides. Segments 9 and 10 are unmarked. Anal appendages are black. Superior appendages have the upper and outer surfaces bright yellow. They truncate, tapering sinuously backwards and sloping slightly downwards towards the apices. The inferior appendage is slightly longer, divided into two closely parallel branches and the distal halves curved upwards. It can be distinguished from all other species of this genus by the shape of the anal appendages.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/227900|title=Onychogomphus acinaces Laidlaw, 1922|publisher=India Biodiversity Portal|access-date=2017-02-11}}</ref><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/n303 280]–282|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=477|url=http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/026/05/0423-0522.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1= M. Rathod|first1= Darshana|last2= Parasharya|first2=B.M.|last3= Talmale |first3=S.S.|year=2016|title=Odonata (Insecta) diversity of southern Gujarat, India|journal=Journal of Threatened Taxa|volume=8|issue=11|pages= 9339–9349|doi= 10.11609/jott.2609.8.11.9339-9349|doi-access=free}}</ref>

It is commonly found in shallow mountain streams. It breeds in deep pools in those streams.<ref name=Fraser/>
==See also==
* [[List of odonates of India]]
* [[List of odonata of Kerala]]
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==References==
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[[Category:Gomphidae]]
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