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Issue: Vol. 5124 No. 2: 1 Apr. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-04-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5124.2.7
Page range: 223-229
Abstract views: 282
PDF downloaded: 18

Heteragrion calafatiensis (Odonata: Heteragrionidae) sp. nov. from Northern Brazil

Post-Graduate Program in Zoology-PPGZOOL, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil. 2Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation, Universidade Federal do Pará, Institute of Biological Sciences, Rua Augusto Correia, No. 1 Bairro Guamá, CEP 66.075-110 Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation, Universidade Federal do Pará, Institute of Biological Sciences, Rua Augusto Correia, No. 1 Bairro Guamá, CEP 66.075-110 Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Laboratório de Biologia Aquática, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Assis, São Paulo, Brazil.
Odonata Amazon Damselfly Neotropical New species Pará State Coastal Environments

Abstract

The Neotropical genus Heteragrion Selys, 1862 is the second most speciose among the Neotropical Zygoptera. However, most of its species are poorly known regarding their biology, distribution, and taxonomy, especially those from undersampled areas like Northern Brazil. Here we describe Heteragrion calafatiensis sp. nov. from the coastal environments of the Brazilian Amazon of Pará state (Holotype ♂, Brazil, Pará, municipality of Magalhães Barata, near the Marapanim River, (-0.863291, -47.668058, 20 m, 26.ix.2021), C.C. Mendoza-Penagos leg, in UFPA). This is the nineth Heteragrion species recorded for the Northern region of Brazil. The new species can be separated from congeners by cercal morphology and thoracic coloration pattern.

 

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