Synopsis of Epipleoneura (Zygoptera, Coenagrionidae, “ Protoneuridae ”), with emphasis on its Brazilian species Author Pessacq, Pablo text Zootaxa 2014 3872 3 201 234 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.3.1 47ff6515-876a-4d83-b631-64004e51c683 1175-5326 230974 72ACE4FF-9A41-4D26-A201-01E020439899 Epipleoneura fuscaenea Williamson, 1915 ( Fig. 18 ) Epipleoneura fuscaenea Williamson 1915 : 627 –629, plate 44, figs. 29–30 (new species, male description, illustration of S10 lateral and dorsal view, Type material at NMNH). Kennedy 1917 : 294, plate xxiii fig. 30–31 (illustration of genital ligula in lateral and ectal view). Rácenis 1960 : 25–26 (included in list of species, recorded for British Guyana ). De Marmels 1985 : 88–89, figs. 1–2 (new record for Venezuela , description of epiproct, illustrations of S 10 in postero-dorsal and oblique-posterior view). Garrison et al. 2010 : 352–354, fig. 2342 (included in list of species, illustrations of epiproct in posterior view). Von Ellenrieder 2011 : 59, 73 (record from Suriname ). Diagnosis. Epipleoneura fuscaenea is easily distinguished from other species by the presence of a dorso-ventrally flattened cercus dorsal branch with an apical hook ( Fig. 18 ) and the characteristic epiproct ( Fig. 18 b–c) with two long and narrow divergent branches, similar only to that of E. metallica , from which it differs by cercus morphology. Other species with dorso-ventrally flattened cercus dorsal branch ( i.e. E. angeloi , E. solitaria De Marmels, 1989 ) lack the apical hook. The apex of segment 3 of genital ligula has two triangular lobes separated by a V cleft; the postero-lateral projection is directed posteriorly with conspicuous peduncle and the apex approximately triangular. Female unknown. Distribution. Wismar, Guyana ( type locality). Culebra, Amazonas State, Venezuela ( 03°33'N , 65°50'W ). Brokopondo, Gansee, Suriname ( Garrison et al. 2010 ); Kwamalasamutu, Sipaliwini, Suriname (von Ellenrieder 2011 ). Notes. During my brief visit to the MIZA collection in 2009, I examined material of E. fuscaenea in order to conduct a phylogenetic analysis; unfortunately, I did not draw the studied specimens but only did a schematic drawing of the genital ligula.