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Issue: Vol. 4683 No. 3: 9 Oct. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-10-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4683.3.5
Page range: 412–420
Abstract views: 70
PDF downloaded: 1

Philogenia gaiae sp. nov. (Zygoptera: Philogeniidae) and description of the female of P. macuma Dunkle, 1986, two species from the Ecuadorean lowland rainforest

Graduate Program in Entomology, Department of Biology, University of São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto, Brazil Laboratory of Ecological Studies on Ethology and Evolution (LESTES), Department of Hydrobiology, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Laboratory of Ecological Studies on Ethology and Evolution (LESTES), Department of Hydrobiology, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Laboratorio de Ecología Acuática, Instituto BIOSFERA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Diego de Robles y Vía Interoceánica, Campus Cumbayá, 17-12-841, Quito, Ecuador
Grupo de Ecoloxía Evolutiva e da Conservación, Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Universidade de Vigo, E.E. Forestal, Campus Universitario, 36005 Pontevedra, Spain Corresponding author.
Odonata damselfly new species Ecuador Amazon

Abstract

Philogenia gaiae sp. nov. (Holotype ♂, Ecuador, Orellana, Tiputini Biodiversity Station, -0.6349, -76.1501, 241 m, 13 xii 2012, A. Cordero-Rivera & M. Sánchez-Herrera leg., in MUAE) from the helena group is described, illustrated, diagnosed and compared with morphologically close species of the genus. Philogenia gaiae can be distinguished from its most similar congener P. minteri Dunkle, 1986 by the enlarged cerci and the club-like paraprocts. We also describe the female of P. macuma Dunkle, 1986, from a pair collected at Jatún Sacha Biological Reserve, which is also similar to P. gaiae and can be distinguished by the intersternite morphology, ovipositor length and vulvar lamina shape.

 

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