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Issue: Vol. 4072 No. 3: 2 Feb. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-02-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.2
Page range: 319–332
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 1

Three new species of Papuagrion Ris, 1913 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) from the Hindenburg Wall region of western Papua New Guinea

Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia.
Herpetology Department, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, S A. 5000, Australia and Wildlife Conservation Society, Goroka, Papua New Guinea
Odonata Zygoptera Coenagrionidae Papuagrion chrysosoma marijanmatoki tydecksjuerging new species Papua New Guinea Hindenburg Wall

Abstract

Three distinctive new species of Papuagrion Ris, 1913 are described from a high altitude area (1,770–1,820 m a.s.l.) at the base of the Hindenburg Wall, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. These are P. chrysosoma sp. nov., P marijanmatoki sp. nov. and P. tydecksjuerging sp. nov.; all type material is deposited in the South Australian Museum (SAMA). These were the only species of the genus collected at higher altitudes in the Ok Tedi headwaters, and none of them were encountered at lower altitudes (300–900 m) despite intensive searches there. The new species described here bring to 26 the number of Papuagrion species known from the New Guinea region.

 

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