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
sp. 3
Figure 56
Specimens examined
. 1 Ƥ,
SURINAME
, Boshhinis,
19-IV-1943
, D.K. Geijskes leg. (MNRJ).
Remarks
. So far two species of
Tuberculobasis
have been reported from
Suriname
:
T. mammilaris
by
Belle (2002)
and
T. geijskesi
described here. Median lobe of hind prothoracic lobe of
T.
sp. 3 (
Fig. 56
) is identical to that of the female of
T. mammilaris
(
Fig. 50
), and mesostigmal plate is also similar. However, an important difference is the presence of mesepisternal tubercles in
T.
sp. 3 and their absence in the female of
T.
mammilaris
. It is unlikely that
T.
sp. 3 represents the female of
T. geijskesi
in spite of the fact that these two species were collected in
Suriname
.
Tuberculobasis geijskesi
belongs in the
mammilaris
species group together with
T. tirio
,
T. mammilaris
, and
T. yanomami
.
In all of them, females have no mesepisternal tubercles, and the same most probably occurs with the so far unknown female of
T. geijskesi
.
Thus,
T.
sp. 3 is most likely a new species. Since, however, it might represent the female of one of the six species of
Tuberculobasis
known only from the male, I refrain from naming it here.