A new species of Epithemis Laidlaw, 1955 (Odonata: Libellulidae), from the Western Ghats, India
The monotypic genus Epithemis Laidlaw, 1955, is endemic to the Western Ghats and is represented by the nominate species Epithemis mariae (Laidlaw, 1915).Epithemis mariae is distributed across the Western Space Art Ghats, and as part of an ongoing study, we identified a distinct population from Wayanad.Morphological and molecular data for E.mariae a