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{{Taxobox
| image = Protosticta monticola teneral male by Emiliyamma and Palot.jpg
| image_caption = male
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| ordo = [[Odonata]]
| familia = [[Platystictidae]]
| genus = ''[[Protosticta]]''
| species = '''''P. monticola'''''
| binomial = ''Protosticta monticola''
| binomial_authority = Emiliyamma & Palot, 2016
| synonyms =
}}

'''''Protosticta monticola''''',<ref name=wol>{{World Odonata List}}</ref><ref name=Emiliyamma&Palot>{{cite journal | authors = Emiliyamma, K.G. & M. J. Palot | title = A new species of Protosticta Selys, 1885 (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platystictidae) from Western Ghats, Kerala, India. | journal = Journal of Threatened Taxa | volume= 8 | issue= 14| pages = 9648–9652 | year = 2016| url=http://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/3226/3863| accessdate =2017-03-14 | doi=10.11609/jott.3226.8.14.9648-9652| doi-access = free }} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)] license.</ref> '''monticola reedtail''',<ref name=hindu>{{cite web
|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/New-damselfly-species-identified/article17002608.ece|title=New damselfly species identified|publisher=The Hindu|accessdate=2017-03-14}}</ref> is a [[damselfly]] species in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Platystictidae]]. It is [[endemic]] to southern [[Western Ghats]] in [[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=58–59}}</ref> The species is named ''monticola'' (mountain dweller) considering the natural habitat where the species was discovered.<ref name=Emiliyamma&Palot/><ref name=hindu/>

The genus ''[[Protosticta]]'' has fifteen species reported from [[India]], of which twelve are known from [[Western Ghats]].<ref name=Fraser>{{cite book|author=C FC Lt. 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}}</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>

This species was first found in 2014 in high altitudes (above 1600m) of the [[Anaimalai Hills]] of [[Idukki district]], [[Kerala]], southern [[Western Ghats]]. The study found the presence of this species in highland [[shola]] forest ecosystems of [[Kambilipparachola]] and [[Nagamalachola]] of [[Marayur]] forest division and [[Mathikettan Shola National Park]]. The males were found away from the forest streams, in shaded areas among the shola forest undergrowth at Kambilipparachola. A few females and males were also found frequenting the sides of streams covered with forest canopy near Nagamalachola in Marayur forests. A few female specimens were found in a forest stream inside the shola forest. Other species observed with them were ''[[Euphaea cardinalis]]'' and ''[[Esme cyaneovittata]]''. This is the only species found within the high altitude shola forests of the southern [[Western Ghats]].<ref name=Emiliyamma&Palot/>

This is one of the small-sized ''[[Protosticta]]'' like ''[[Protosticta hearseyi]]''. This species can be distinguished from other ''[[Protosticta]]'' species based on the completely black dorsal surface of its abdomen, 7th and 8th abdominal segments without yellow or blue color dorsally, and its distinct anal appendages.<ref name=Emiliyamma&Palot/>
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File:Protosticta monticola head by Emiliyamma and Palot.jpg|Head (male)
File:Protosticta monticola anal appendages by Emiliyamma and Palot.jpg|Anal appendages (male)
File:Protosticta monticola genitalia by Emiliyamma and Palot.jpg|Genitalia (male)
File:Protosticta monticola wings by Emiliyamma and Palot.jpg|Wings (male)
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== See also ==
* [[List of odonates of India]]
* [[List of odonata of Kerala]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Wikispecies-inline|Protosticta monticola}}

{{Commonscat-inline|Protosticta monticola}}

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[[Category:Platystictidae]]
[[Category:Insects of India]]
[[Category:Insects described in 2016]]

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Protosticta monticola - Revision history

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