The monotypic genus Epithemis Laidlaw, 1955, is endemic to the Western Ghats and bondi 2 seater sofa is represented by the nominate species Epithemis mariae (Laidlaw, 1915).Epithemis mariae is distributed across the Western Ghats, and as part of an ongoing study, we identified a distinct population from Wayanad.Morphological and molecular data for E.mariae and the population from the Wayanad plateau affirm that the two are distinct taxa and allow us to describe a new species.Epithemis wayanadensis sp.
nov.is described based on male specimens collected from Wayanad, a part of the grace m801 Western Ghats in Kerala state, southern India.