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Issue: Vol. 4072 No. 3: 2 Feb. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-02-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.8
Page range: 387–390
Abstract views: 54
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Macrothemis meurgeyi Daigle, 2007, from Guadeloupe is a junior synonym of Macrothemis celeno (Selys in Sagra, 1857) (Odonata; Libellulidae)

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Odonata Libellulidae

Abstract

The genus Macrothemis consists of 40 Neotropical species (Garrison et al. 2006). Recently, a new species, Macrothemis meurgeyi from Guadeloupe (French West Indies), was described based on specimens from Habitation Deravin, Basse-Terre (Daigle 2007).

 

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