Synopsis of Epipleoneura (Zygoptera, Coenagrionidae, “ Protoneuridae ”), with emphasis on its Brazilian species
Author
Pessacq, Pablo
text
Zootaxa
2014
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journal article
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Epipleoneura lamina
Williamson, 1915
(
Figs. 11
,
28
,
66
)
Epipleoneura lamina
Williamson 1915
: 625
–627, figs. 25–26 (new species, description of male and female, illustration of S
10 in
dorsal and lateral view,
type
material at NMNH).
Kennedy 1917
: 293, plate xxiii fig. 29 (illustration of genital ligula in lateral view).
Rácenis 1960
: 25–26 (included in list of species, recorded for British
Guyana
).
De Marmels 1992
: 61, 72, figs. 20–22 (new record for
Venezuela
, illustrations of genital ligula in ectal and lateral view, female prothorax in dorsal view).
Garrison
et al.
2010
: 352, 355, figs. 2318, 2319, 2345 (included in list of species, illustrations of head in anterior view, male pronotum and epiproct in posterior view).
Pessacq
et al.
2012
: 4 (included in list of Brazilian
Protoneuridae
, new record for
Brazil
).
Specimens examined.
2♂
, 1♀.
1♂
,
Brazil
, Amazonas State, Borba, Jutaí, route BR 319, km 378 (
04º23’16”S
,
59º35’38”W
), leg. J. Becker,
3 xi 1977
.
1 ♂
1 ♀,
Brazil
, Rondônia State, Pardo river and tributaries,
13 km
NW of Fazenda Rancho Grande,
62 km
SW of Ariquemes (
10º50’S
,
63º07’W
), RWG.
Diagnosis.
Male cercus resembles that of
E. capilliformis
. The cercus posses a well-developed inner-basal branch, with its apex directed posteriorly, reaching midline of S10. The epiproct (
Fig. 11
b–c) resembles that of
E. tariana
Machado, 1985
, but is short and its apex has two small rounded lobes joined at base that may represent two almost completely fused branches. See under
E. tariana
for further comments. The two lateral elongated L-shaped lobes on the genital ligula apex (
Fig. 28
) differentiate
E. lamina
from all other species. The female posterior margin of pronotum (
Fig. 66
) is unique in having a medial depression, thus resulting in two lateral lobes each with its inner apex rounded and divided by a small distance from each other.
Distribution.
Northwestern
Brazil
in
the States
of Amazonas and Rondônia and
Guyana
(
type
locality Wismar,
Guyana
).
Notes.
The present record for Rondônia represents a new record for that State.