Vestalis submontana[2][3] is a species of damselfly belonging to the family Calopterygidae.

The type specimens were from Nilgiri mountains in Western Ghats of South India.

[7][4] Matti Hämäläinen[8] studied the type specimens of these taxa and other material preserved in collections of BMNH (London), IRSN (Brussels) and RMNH (Leiden) in 2011.

He concluded that there is striking structural and colour differences which indicate that submontana is a distinct species.

And its sympatric occurrence with V. apicalis and V. gracilis alone rules out its former subspecies status.