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Issue: Vol. 5507 No. 1: 11 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5507.1.10
Page range: 187-193
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 6

The females of Epipleoneura capilliformis (Selys, 1886) and E. albuquerquei Machado, 1964 (Odonata: Protoneurinae): description and diagnosis

Instituto Federal de Educação; Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas – Campus Inconfidentes; Inconfidentes; Minas Gerais; Brazil
Instituto Federal de Educação; Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas – Campus Inconfidentes; Inconfidentes; Minas Gerais; Brazil
Instituto Federal de Educação; Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas – Campus Inconfidentes; Inconfidentes; Minas Gerais; Brazil
Laboratorio de Ecologia e Conservação - LABECO; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas; Universidade Federal do Pará; Belém; Pará; Brazil; Departamento de Entomología; Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Lima; Perú
Laboratorio de Ecologia e Conservação - LABECO; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas; Universidade Federal do Pará; Belém; Pará; Brazil
Odonata Zygoptera Neotropical region Amazon Forest

Abstract

We describe, illustrate and diagnose two hitherto unknown females of the genus Epipleoneura Williamson, 1915: E. capilliformis (Selys, 1886) and E. albuquerquei Machado, 1964. Both females are diagnosed based on the prothoracic hind lobe morphology: in E. capilliformis, the hind lobe is trilobed, with an elevated median portion, unique within the known females of the genus. Females of E. albuquerquei have an entire, posteriorly oriented (i.e. not partitioned into additional lobes) hind lobe, similar to E. haroldoi Santos, 1964, although more concave.

 

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