The damselfly genus Megaloprepus (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae): Revalidation and delimitation of species-level taxa including the description of one new species
Author
Feindt, Wiebke
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, ITZ, Division of Ecology and Evolution, Bünteweg 17 d, 30559 Hannover, Germany American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Central Park West, W 81 Street, New York, NY 10024, USA ITZ-Forschungsstätte ‘ Alter Bahnhof Schapen’ Braunschweig, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover / Braunschweig, Germany. heike. hadrys @ ecolevol. de
Author
Hadrys, Heike
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, ITZ, Division of Ecology and Evolution, Bünteweg 17 d, 30559 Hannover, Germany American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Central Park West, W 81 Street, New York, NY 10024, USA ITZ-Forschungsstätte ‘ Alter Bahnhof Schapen’ Braunschweig, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover / Braunschweig, Germany. heike. hadrys @ ecolevol. de
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-03-16
5115
4
487
510
journal article
20207
10.11646/zootaxa.5115.4.2
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1175-5326
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Key to adult male
Megaloprepus
1
Hind lobe of prothorax with recessed middle area............................................................ 2
1´
Hind lobe of prothorax straight.......................................................................... 3
2
Hind lobe of prothorax with a small recessed area in the middle; paraprocts in lateral view pear-like with A and B smoothly convex, D = 51.7% of L-L’ length..............................................................
M. latipennis
2’
Hind lobe of prothorax with a large recessed area in the middle, forming two rounded lateral lobes; paraprocts in lateral view quadrangular with A angulated convex and B slightly concave (almost straight), D = 69% of L-L’ length; blue wing band narrow; pseudostigma nearly quadrate............................................................
M. brevistigma
3
Paraprocts in lateral view roughly triangular with A and B slightly convex and sub-equal, D = 66% of L – L’ length; wings broad with additional milky-white band proximal of the metallic blue band..................................
M. caerulatus
3’
Paraprocts in lateral view roughly triangular with A convex and B straight, D = 76% of L – L’ length............
M. diaboli