A new species of Protosticta Selys, 1885 (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platystictidae) from Western Ghats, India

A new species of Protosticta Selys, 1885 is described from Anamalai Hills southern Western Ghats in peninsular India. The distinguished its regional congeners by the posterior lobe prothorax being devoid spines; anterior 1/3rd S8 pale yellow, marking not connected dorsally; S9 completely black; caudal appendages short, sinuous, and only twice length S10, cerci with a small blunt basal tooth; tip superior bilobed but straight, paraprocts beveled at tip, clubbed; pterostigma both wings trapezoidal maximum less than breadth, forewing nine & hindwing eight postnodals, structure male genital ligula. Peechi Wildlife Sanctuary on northwestern flanks hills. key to identification provided based mature males.