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Issue: Vol. 4514 No. 1: 6 Nov. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-11-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.1.11
Page range: 137–144
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Final instar larvae of Argia mollis Hagen in Selys, 1865 and Argia smithiana Calvert, 1909 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) from the Brazilian Cerrado

Laboratory of Ecological Studies on Ethology and Evolution (LESTES), Department of Hydrobiology, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Laboratory of Ecological Studies on Ethology and Evolution (LESTES), Department of Hydrobiology, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil. Graduate Program in Entomology, FFCLRP—University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
Laboratory of Ecological Studies on Ethology and Evolution (LESTES), Department of Hydrobiology, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Odonata damselfly taxonomy naiad nymph

Abstract

Recent expeditions to the Serra da Canastra and Chapada dos Guimarães National Parks in Brazil resulted in the collection of larvae of Argia mollis Hagen in Selys, 1865 and A. smithiana Calvert, 1909. Thus, here we describe the last instar larvae of these two Argia species from the Brazilian Cerrado.

 

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