Indothemis carnatica,[3] the black marsh skimmer,[4] or light-tipped demon,[5] is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae.

[1][6][4][5][7] It is a small dark violaceous or blackish-brown dragonfly with yellow markings obscurely showing through.

Its thorax is blackish-brown, obscured with pruinescence and appears uniformly dark violaceous in full adults.

Abdomen is golden-yellow on dorsum, fading to greenish-yellow laterally, marked with black and reddish-brown.

There is a narrow sub-dorsal stripe extending in a very broken manner from segment 2 to the end of abdomen.