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Issue: Vol. 4103 No. 5: 15 Apr. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-04-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.5.6
Page range: 481–486
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 2

A remarkable new species of Coeliccia from the Tuyen Lam Lake area, Lam Dong, southern Vietnam (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platycnemididae) 

Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
Odonata Zygoptera Platycnemididae Coeliccia suoitia Vietnam new species

Abstract

Coeliccia suoitia sp. nov. (holotype ♂, from Suoi Tia, Tuyen Lam Lake, Da Lat, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam, deposited in RMNH) is described from males from southern Vietnam. It is a distinctive species that possess highly unusual characters in the thorax and anal appendages that make its ultimate generic placement questionable. Relationships between Coeliccia Kirby, Asthenocnemis Lieftinck and Indocnemis Laidlaw, and within Coeliccia, are briefly discussed.

 

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