Denticulobasis and Tuberculobasis, new genera close to Leptobasis, with description of ten new species (Odonata: Coenagrionidae).
Author
Machado, Angelo B. M.
text
Zootaxa
2009
2108
1
36
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.187806
9a495f32-3eb8-4b35-bd46-adca3b5db2d2
1175-5326
187806
Tuberculobasis arara
sp.nov.
Figures 25–26
,
57–59
Etymology:
The name refers to the
Arara
indian people who inhabit the municipality of Ji-Paraná.
Type
specimen:
Holotype
(3),
BRAZIL
, Rondônia State, Ji-Paraná
(
8º03´N
,
62º52´W
),
25-I-1961
, Machado & Pereira leg. (inside forest, away from water) (
ABMM
).
Description.
Male
holotype
.
Head.
Missing.
Thorax.
Prothorax: Anterior lobe grey, median lobe brown with brown-yellowish lateral areas. Posterior lobe reddish brown. Pterothorax: mesopleuron and metepisternum ventrally brownish yellow, dorsally brown with a poorly defined antehumeral grey stripe and a well defined metepisternal stripe continuing on to mesinfrepisternum. Legs yellow, wings hyaline, venation brown, pterostigma reddish brown. Px in FW
11–12 in
HW 10; R
3 in
FW originating near Px 6, in HW near Px 4–5. Petiolation distal to Ac by a distance twice or 1.5 times the length of Ac in FW and 1.5 times in HW.
Abdomen.
S1–2 dorsally brown, laterally whitish blue. S3–6 dorso-laterally dark brown with a pre-apical lateral yellow marking scarcely visible. S7–10 and cercus yellowish orange. Paraproct brown.
Structural characters
.
Hind
prothoracic lobe (
Figs 25, 26
) without lateral lobes, median lobe subrectangular, dorsal lip fused medially with ventral lip resulting a median depression (
Fig. 25
). Mesepisternal tubercles (
Figs 25, 26
) high (2.36 mm) and divergent in dorsal view (
Fig. 25
) with the apex subtruncated (
Fig. 25
). Cercus (
Figs. 57–59
) shorter than S10, about 1/3 shorter than paraprocts, with short ventro-medial subtriangular process (
Figs 58–59
). Penis typical for
Tuberculobasis
(as in
Fig. 89
).
Dimensions (mm).
Abdomen 31.2; HW 19.2
Remarks.
By having high metepisternal tubercles with their bases adjacent to mid-dorsal carina, paraproct much longer than cercus, and no lateral lobes in hind prothoracic lobe,
T. arara
belongs in the
costalimai
species group together with
T. guarani
,
T. inversa
,
T. costalimai
, and
T. williamsoni
.
It is closer to