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Issue: Vol. 5219 No. 2: 8 Dec. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-12-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.2.4
Page range: 153-164
Abstract views: 232
PDF downloaded: 37

A new Epipleoneura Williamson, 1915 (Zygoptera, Coenagrionidae) from northern Brazil and notes on E. venezuelensis Rácenis, 1955

Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Ecología y Sistemática Animal, Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagonica (LIESA-CIEMEP-CONICET), Chubut, Argentina. 2Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia “San Juan Bosco”, Chubut, Argentina.
Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Ecología y Sistemática Animal, Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagonica (LIESA-CIEMEP-CONICET), Chubut, Argentina. 2Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia “San Juan Bosco”, Chubut, Argentina.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB), Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação (LABECO), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, Brazil.
3Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB), Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação (LABECO), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB), Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação (LABECO), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, Brazil.
Zygoptera Amazon damselfly Epipleoneura lencionii Neotropics

Abstract

Epipleoneura lencionii sp. nov. is erected based on specimens from Acre State (holotype: 10º7′38.5″S; 67º38′6.7″W, 12.ix.2017, Miguel, T.B. leg). Additional material collected in Minas Gerais was also studied, but subsequently was lost in a fire at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. We compared the new species with E. venezuelensis Rácenis, 1955. Epipleoneura lencionii differs from E. venezuelensis by the orientation of the lateral lobes on the male epiproct and by the shape of the posterior lobe of the prothorax of the female. The distribution of the species is analyzed and notes on the reproductive behavior of the genus are provided.

 

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