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Issue: Vol. 4803 No. 2: 26 Jun. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-06-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4803.2.9
Page range: 381–387
Abstract views: 76
PDF downloaded: 5

The female of Epipleoneura spatulata Rácenis, 1960 (Odonata: Protoneurinae)

University of São Paulo, Graduate Program in Entomology, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil Laboratory of Ecological Studies on Ethology and Evolution (LESTES), Department of Hydrobiology, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
Instituto de Criminalística, Departamento de Polícia Técnica-Científica, Av. Noel Nutels, 4251, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Federal University of Paraíba, Graduate Program in Biological Sciences―Zoology, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil
Laboratory of Ecological Studies on Ethology and Evolution (LESTES), Department of Hydrobiology, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Av. André Araújo, 2.936, 69067-375 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Odonata Aquatic insects Amazon Coenagrionidae damselfly taxonomy Zygoptera

Abstract

Here we describe the hitherto unknown female of Epipleoneura spatulata Rácenis, 1960 and present a table of characters (all illustrated) to distinguish it from other known congeneric females. We suggest that the main diagnostic character of the female of E. spatulata is the shape of posterior margin of prothorax, which is flat medially with smoothly curved erect lateral projections.

 

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