A Revision of Mesopodagrion McLachlan, 1896 (Odonata: Zygoptera: Megapodagrionidae)
Author
Yu, Xin
Author
Bu, Wenjun
text
Zootaxa
2009
2202
59
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.189645
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189645
Mesopodagrion tibetanum
McLachlan, 1896
Remarks.
As discussed in the introduction, the male and female
syntypes
of
Mesopodagrion tibetanum
in BMNH represent two different species. In order to preserve current usage of the name we here designate the
syntype
male as
lectotype
. We have informed the curator of the
Odonata
collection, David Goodger, of this and have asked him to apply the following
lectotype
label to the male: "
Mesopodagrion tibetanum
McLachlan, 1896
/
LECTOTYPE
des. Xin Yu & Wenjun Bu, 2009." The
lectotype
male is the
type
species for
Mesopodagrion
and its
type
locality is Moupin, now in Sichuan province,
China
. Curiously,
Kimmins (1970)
did not list this species in his
type
catalog. Fraser's (1933) account should apply to
Mesopodagrion tibetanum
but Fraser neglected to illustrate or discuss the unique bifurcate process although cerci and genital ligula were correctly figured. None of our specimens was consistent with the wing vein pattern illustrated by
Fraser (1933)
, i.e. ‘two rows of cells between Cuii and IA near their terminations’. His supposition that pale color on living male was blue was correct based on our field work. This species usually has pruinosity onS9–10. Based on distinct differences between populations from Sichuan and Yunnan we have divided them into two subspecies as follows.