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Issue: Vol. 5604 No. 3: 14 Mar. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-03-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.3.10
Page range: 383-388
Abstract views: 44
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Neotropical Enallagma Charpentier of the cyathigerum complex from Tobago (Odonata: Coenagrionidae)

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Odonata Damselfly description Neotropical

Abstract

Enallagma tobagoensis sp. nov. (Holotype, male: Tobago, St. John Parish, stream along Northside Road (N 11.2868°, W 60.6808°, 8 August 2019, Thomas W. Donnelly and John Michalski leg.) is described based on two incomplete males. The new species is a smaller melanic version of the Enallagma cyathigerum complex and is the first member of that group known from the Neotropical region.

 

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