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Issue: Vol. 5068 No. 2: 16 Nov. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-11-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.2.4
Page range: 240-246
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Leptagrion jeromei (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) spec. nov. from Brazil, with notes on L. andromache Hagen in Selys, 1876

Laboratório de Biologia Aquática, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Assis, São Paulo, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Amapá, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade Tropical, Macapá, AP, Brazil.
Laboratório de Ensino de Zoologia, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias e Biológicas, CEUNES, UFES, BR 101 Norte, Km 60, Bairro Litorâneo, CEP 29932-540, São Mateus, ES, Brazil.
Rua Anibal, 216, Jardim Coleginho, CEP 12310-780, Jacareí, SP, Brazil.
Odonata bromeliad damselfly damselfly new species Brazilian fauna

Abstract

A new species of Leptagrion Selys, 1876 is described and named in honor to Dr. Jerome Constant: Leptagrion jeromei (Holotype: Brazil: Bahia, Jussari, RPPN Serra do Teimoso, Jequitiba tree (Cariniana legalis (Mart.) Kuntze, 1898) at 32 m, 10.v.2005, K.S. Furieri leg and deposited in FAAL). This species was confused for a long time with L. andromache Hagen in Selys, 1876 its closest congener. Diagnostic illustrations of L. andromache (lectotype and specimens collected at Amapá—Brazil) and L. jeromei spec. nov. are presented. We also present the northernmost record for L. andromache in Amapá state, Northern Brazil.

 

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