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, 13, figs. 3233 [Guadun,
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, figs. 1214 [Tien-Mu-Shan, Chekiang];
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.
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This is a large, endemic Chinese species mainly occurring in
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and
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did not provide any figures for this species.
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described
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on base of a female specimen from Tianmushan,
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. After carefully studying another female specimen collected from the
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locality of
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believed it was a junior synonym of
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, which was finally accepted by
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.
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specimen of
<taxonomicName id="4C7D4D56FF8DFFBC6C17FF3AFD06F9AB" authorityName="Needham" authorityYear="1930" box="[610,708,151,177]" class="Insecta" family="Synlestidae" genus="Megalestes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Odonata" pageId="16" pageNumber="261" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="heros">
<emphasis id="B909EAC7FF8DFFBC6C17FF3AFD06F9AB" box="[610,708,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="261">M. heros</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(the teneral male from
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) was true of this species. We have explored
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for many years and have never found
<taxonomicName id="4C7D4D56FF8DFFBC6D76FF16FCA6F9CF" authorityName="Needham" authorityYear="1930" box="[771,868,187,213]" class="Insecta" family="Synlestidae" genus="Megalestes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Odonata" pageId="16" pageNumber="261" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="heros">
<emphasis id="B909EAC7FF8DFFBC6D76FF16FCA6F9CF" box="[771,868,187,213]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="261">M. heros</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but the similar-sized species
<taxonomicName id="4C7D4D56FF8DFFBC6AC7FF16FA87F9CE" authorityName="Chao" authorityYear="1965" box="[1202,1349,187,212]" class="Insecta" family="Synlestidae" genus="Megalestes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Odonata" pageId="16" pageNumber="261" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="omeiensis">
<emphasis id="B909EAC7FF8DFFBC6AC7FF16FA87F9CE" box="[1202,1349,187,212]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="261">M. omeiensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is present. We agree with
<bibRefCitation id="EFEC4B24FF8DFFBC6F1AFF72FE3EF9E3" author="Chao, H. - F." box="[367,508,222,249]" pageId="16" pageNumber="261" pagination="187 - 196" refId="ref13620" refString="Chao, H. - F. (1965) A study of the Chinese dragonflies of the genus Megalestes Selys, with description of a new species (Odonata: Synlestidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 2, 187 - 196." type="journal article" year="1965">Chao (1965)</bibRefCitation>
to believe that Needham confused these two species in his original study.
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