A brief look at the Odonata from the Páramo ecosystems in Colombia, with the descriptions of Oxyallagma colombianum sp. nov. and Rhionaeschna caligo sp. nov. (Odonata: Coenagrionidae, Aeshnidae, Libellulidae)
Author
Bota, Cornelio Andrés
text
Zootaxa
2014
3856
2
192
210
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3856.2.2
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1175-5326
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Oxyallagma
genus
The only species known so far in this genus is
Oxyallagma dissidens
(Selys, 1876)
from
Ecuador
and
Peru
. The presence of
Oxyallagma
in
Colombia
was previously mentioned by Bota
-
Sierra & Wolf (2013)
; however, they only mentioned an undescribed species sympatric with
M. gaudiimontanum
.
Here I present a key to distinguish the two species that inhabit the Colombian Andes.