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Type: Article
Published: 2014-11-14
Page range: 267–274
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Description of the final instar larva of Rhionaeschna vigintipunctata (Ris, 1918) (Odonata: Aeshnidae)

Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical, CONICET (Argentine Council of Scientific Research), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e IML, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, M. Lillo 205, 4000, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical, CONICET (Argentine Council of Scientific Research), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e IML, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, M. Lillo 205, 4000, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
Rhionaeschna vigintipunctata larva description Anisoptera Marmaraeschna group South America

Abstract

The final instar larva of Rhionaeschna vigintipunctata (Ris) (Odonata, Aeshnidae) is described for the first time. The description is based on a series of mature female larvae collected in Tucumán (NW Argentina) and reared to imago. It shares the U-shaped distal excision of epiproct with other larvae of the Marmaraeschna group (only R. pallipes and R. brevicercia known from this stage); but the minute tubercle at each side of the cleft of ligula is absent. Other characters unique to R. vigintipunctata include: open ligula (vs. closed in other "Marmaraeschna"), and mandibular formula. A table to distinguish the larvae of the three species of "Marmaraeschna" and biological and distributional data of R. vigintipunctata are included.