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Issue: Vol. 4144 No. 2: 27 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.2.8
Page range: 263–275
Abstract views: 339
PDF downloaded: 1

Paracercion ambiguum sp. nov. from Lang Son, Vietnam (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae)

Institute of Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
Schoutenstraat 69, 2596 SK, Den Haag, the Netherlands
Institute of Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
Institute of Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
Odonata Paracercion new species Vietnam COI phylogeny

Abstract

One new species of Paracercion Weekers and Dumont, 2004 (Paracercion ambiguum Kompier & Yu, 2016, holotype male, Vietnam, Lang Son province, Huu Lien Nature Reserve, 1-XII-2013, deposited in Institute of Entomology, College of Life Sciences of Nankai University, Tianjin, China) is proposed on the basis of molecular and morphological evidence. A COI gene tree is presented for Paracercion species and several morphologically related genera. The species is described and illustrated for both sexes. Diagnostic figures of the genital ligula and caudal appendages are provided.

 

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