Protosticta rufostigma

{{Short description|Species of damselfly}}

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| image = DSC 0067 Protosticta rufostigma Kimmins, 1958.jpg

| image_caption = Male

| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Subramanian, K.A. |author2=Dow, R.A. |date=2019 |title=Protosticta rufostigma |volume=2019 |page=e.T175198A123526141 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T175198A123526141.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| genus = Protosticta

| species = rufostigma

| authority = Kimmins, 1958

| synonyms =

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Protosticta rufostigma{{cite web

|url=https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/slater-museum/biodiversity-resources/dragonflies/world-odonata-list/|title=World Odonata List|publisher=Slater Museum of Natural History|access-date=2017-03-15}} is a damselfly species in the family Platystictidae. It is endemic to Western Ghats in India.{{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=978-81-8171-495-4|page=62}}

The genus Protosticta has eleven species reported from India, of which nine are known from Western Ghats.{{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}}{{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}}

It is currently known only from the type locality Naraikadu, which is a part of the Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve.{{cite web

|url=http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/228166|title=Protosticta rufostigma Kimmins, 1958|publisher=India Biodiversity Portal|access-date=2017-03-15}} It is closely related to Protosticta davenporti but can be distinguished by the larger pterostigma, difference in the pattern of prothorax and the eighth abdominal segment, and the shape of the anal appendages.{{cite journal |author=D E Kimmins | title = New species and subspecies of Odonata | journal = Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology | volume= 7 | issue= 7| pages = 349–350| year = 1958| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19466#page/381/mode/1up| access-date =2017-03-15}}