Description of Chlorogomphus auripennis spec. nov. from Guangdong Province, with new records of Chlorogomphidae from Yunnan Province, China (Odonata: Chlorogomphidae)
Author
Zhang, Hao-Miao
Author
Cai, Qing-Hua
text
Zootaxa
2014
3790
3
477
486
journal article
45945
10.11646/zootaxa.3790.3.6
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1175-5326
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Chlorogomphus
(
Neorogomphus
)
auratus
Martin, 1910
Figures 17–20
Material examined.
1♂
, Manhao Tropical Forestry Park (
23°01’30’’N
, 1013°24’02’’E), altitude
490 m
, Manhao Town, Gejiu City, Hani-Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Honghe, Yunnan Province,
China
, Haomiao Zhang leg., 0
2. V. 2012
;
2♂
2♀, same locality and collector, 0
3. V. 2012
;
3♂
2♀, same locality and collector, 0
3. V. 2012
.
Notes.
The species is first recorded from
China
. The female possesses very remarkable golden wings with tips clearly darkened (
Figs. 18–19
). The locality is a forestry park for tourists at about
500 m
in elevation. All the specimens were collected in the afternoon in early May, when it was very hot and temperature was over 35°C. They were hanging on the slim branches of trees in the dense forest to escape the fierce sunshine, only about
2–3 m
above ground (
Fig. 17
), and one male was collected just
0.5 m
above ground. After 16:00h they became active. Copulation was seen in the afternoon in the dense forest (
Fig. 20
).
Distribution.
China
(Hani-Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Honghe, Yunnan Province) and
Vietnam
.