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Issue: Vol. 4990 No. 3: 22 Jun. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-06-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4990.3.4
Page range: 511-541
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Synopsis of Lestes from Brazil with description of Lestes demarcoi sp. nov. (Zygoptera: Lestidae)

Private researcher, Rua Anibal, 216, d. Coleginho, Vila Zezé, Jacareí, CEP (ZIP) 12310-780, ão Paulo, Brazil.
2Instituto de Criminalística, Departamento de Polícia Técnico-Científica, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
3Universidade Federal do Norte do Tocantins, Laboratório de Coleções Biológicas e Paleontológicas, Biologia, Avenida Paraguai (esq. Uxiramas), Bairro Cimba, Araguaína, Tocantins, CEP 77824––838, Brazil.
4Laboratório de Ensino de Zoologia, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias e Biológicas, CEUNES, UFES, BR 101 Norte, Km 60, Bairro Litorâneo, São Mateus, CEP 29932-540, Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Rua Augusto Correia, No 1 Bairro Guamá, Belém, Pará––CEP 66.075-110, Brazil.
6Entomology Laboratory of Nova Xavantina, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil.
7Private researcher. Rua Jaime Bilharinho, 575, Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Odonata damselfly new species Brazilian fauna

Abstract

The Brazilian fauna of Lestidae contains two genera (Archilestes Selys, 1862 and Lestes Leach in Brewster, 1815) with 14 species, many of which are poorly defined and/or known only by primary literature. To improve the knowledge of the Brazilian species of the genus Lestes we examined 97 specimens pertaining to 11 of the 13 described species. Additionally, a new species is described here in honor to Prof. Dr. Paulo De Marco Júnior: Lestes demarcoi (Holotype and Allotype: Brazil: Amazonas, Manaus, Reserva Adolpho Ducke, Acará trail, 02º55’46” S & 59º58’22” W, 62 m, 13.iv.2009, collected in tandem, U.G. Neiss leg. and deposited in FAAL).

                Diagnostic illustrations of all species are provided. Color photographs of live individuals of Lestes dichrostigma Calvert, 1909, Lestes forficula Rambur, 1842 and Lestes paulistus Calvert, 1909 are also presented.

 

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