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Issue: Vol. 2899 No. 1: 31 May. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-05-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2899.1.3
Page range: 60–68
Abstract views: 115
PDF downloaded: 2

Cordulegaster sarracenia, n. sp. (Odonata: Cordulegastridae) from east Texas and western Louisiana, with a key to adult Cordulegastridae of the New World

Curator of Entomology, Texas Natural Science Center, Brackenridge Field Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, 2907 Lake Austin Blvd., Austin, Texas 78703, United States of America
501 N Ann Street, P.O. Box 1872, Brackettville, Texas 78832, United States of America
Odonata Anisoptera Cordulegastroidea Zoraena new species pitcher plants

Abstract

Cordulegaster sarracenia is described from spring seepages in pitcher plant bogs of southeast Texas and western Louisiana. It is most closely related to C. sayi of the C. diastatops group. It is unique among all North American species of its genus in having the mesepimeral and metepimeral stripes distinctly paler than the mesepisternal stripes in combination with yellow bands on S3–8 that are interrupted middorsally by the carina.

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