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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Key to species of
Oxyallagma
Reference to the illustrations of
O. dissidens
in
Garrison
et al.
(2010)
is important in order to accurately identify these species.
1. Females............................................................................................ 2
1’. Males............................................................................................. 3
2 (1). S2
–
6 with middorsal black stripe, S9 with light blue middorsal stripe (
Fig. 4
c); cercus ivory white; middorsum of posterior lobe of pronotum strongly bent dorsally (Northern
Peru
,
Ecuador
, and Southern
Colombia
)..................
O. dissidens
2’. No middorsal black stripe on S2
–
6, nor light blue middorsal stripe on S9 (
Figs. 5
b, d); cercus dark brown; middorsum of pos- terior lobe of pronotum only slightly bent dorsally (
Fig. 6
a) (Northern
Colombia
)......................
O. colombianum
3 (1’). Genital ligula without small latero-medial pointed lobes; paraproct with swollen semicircular ventral branch as wide as cercus; cercus with two short ventroapical processes (Northern
Peru
,
Ecuador
, and Southern
Colombia
)..............
O. dissidens
3’. Genital ligula with small latero-medial pointed lobes (
Fig. 6
b); paraproct with ventral branch not swollen, narrower than half of cercus (
Figs. 6
c
–
d); cercus with one ventroapical process (
Fig. 6
d) (Northern
Colombia
)..............
O. colombianum