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Issue: Vol. 5297 No. 2: 1 Jun. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-06-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5297.2.4
Page range: 239-259
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Diagnoses and key for the larvae of Progomphus Selys, 1854 from Argentina (Anisoptera: Gomphidae), with first larval descriptions for P. aberrans Belle, 1973 and P. kimminsi Belle, 1973

Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical; CONICET-UNT (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas—Universidad Nacional de Tucumán); Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M. Lillo; Tucumán; Argentina
Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical; CONICET-UNT (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas—Universidad Nacional de Tucumán); Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M. Lillo; Tucumán; Argentina
Facultad de Ciencias Forestales (FCF); Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero (UNSE); Avenida Belgrano (Sur) 1912; Santiago del Estero; Argentina
Departamento de Ciencias Naturales; Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra; Biodiversidad y Ambiente (ICBIA); Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto- CONICET; Córdoba; Argentina
Odonata Clubtail dragonfly larval description immature stage mandibular formula

Abstract

Ten species of Progomphus Selys, 1854 are known to occur in Argentina. The larval stages of only four of them are described. We here add the larval descriptions of two species: P. aberrans Belle, 1973 and P. kimminsi Belle, 1973, and diagnose and illustrate important characters for the remaining species known at the larval stage in Argentina: P. complicatus Selys, 1854, P. joergenseni Ris, 1908, P. lepidus Ris, 1911 and P. phyllochromus Ris, 1918. New geographical records for these species are presented, including new records for P. kimminsi in Bolivia, and new provincial records in Argentina: P. aberrans and P. joergenseni in San Luis, and P. kimminsi in Santiago del Estero. A key to distinguish the larval stage of Argentinean species is proposed.

 

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