Description of Protosticta khasia sp. nov. and Yunnanosticta siangi sp. nov., with new records of P. samtsensis Gurung & Phan, 2023 from Northeast India (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platystictidae)
Author
Joshi, Shantanu
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 72701, Arkansas, USA & National Centre for Biological Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bellary Rd, Bengaluru, 560065, Karnataka, India
Author
Sarkar, Vivek
0000-0002-0091-0288
Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, 248001, Uttarakhand, India
viveksarkar87@gmail.com
Author
Sawant, Dattaprasad
0000-0003-0533-9292
Government Medical College and Hospital, Sindhudurg, 416534, Maharashtra, India
dattaprasad.101@gmail.com
Author
Pawar, Ujwala
0000-0003-1281-2228
National Centre for Biological Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bellary Rd, Bengaluru, 560065, Karnataka, India
ujwalamp@ncbs.res.in
Author
Kunte, Krushnamegh
0000-0002-3860-6118
National Centre for Biological Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bellary Rd, Bengaluru, 560065, Karnataka, India
krushnamegh@ncbs.res.in
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-05-13
5448
3
348
370
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5448.3.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5448.3.2
1175-5326
11231707
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Protosticta damacornu
Terzani & Carletti
(
Fig. 1
)
Comments.
Terzani & Carletti (1998)
described this species based on a single male collected from “NE
India
, Megahalaya, East Khasi Hills, Umran,
33 km
N of Shillong
”.
There
have been no additional records of the species since the description.
The
illustrations of caudal appendages in the original description are lacking details, which became an impediment to comparing this species with gathered
Protosticta
material from northeast
India
.
We
were able to acquire images of the
holotype
male deposited at the Natural History Museum,
University of Florence
,
Italy
, and are providing photographs of holotype’s caudal appendages from ventral and ventro-lateral view that are reproduced here with permission (
Fig. 1
)
.
No further specimens are known.