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<mods:title>Revision of Vanuatubasis Ober & Staniczek, 2009 (Odonata, Coenagrionidae), with description of seven new species</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Saxton, Natalie A.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Research and Collections Division, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA & Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA & Department of Biology and Monte L. Bean Museum Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84604, USA</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Marinov, Milen G.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Biosecurity Surveillance and Incursion Investigation Plant Health Team, Ministry for Primary Industries, 14 Sir William Pickering Drive, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Bybee, Seth M.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Department of Biology and Monte L. Bean Museum Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84604, USA</mods:affiliation>
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<taxonomicName LSID="https://zoobank.org/B7579D85-263D-4251-82AC-67AD6AD1DD4E" authority="Saxton & Marinov & Bybee, 2022" authorityName="Saxton & Marinov & Bybee" authorityYear="2022" class="Insecta" family="Coenagrionidae" genus="Vanuatubasis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Vanuatubasis kapularum" order="Odonata" pageId="0" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kapularum" status="sp. nov.">Vanuatubasis kapularum</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Vanuatubasis kapularum Holotype (♂ BYU) A dorsal thorax B lateral terminalia C dorsal terminalia D lateral habitus V. kapularum Allotype (♀ BYU) E dorsal thorax F lateral terminalia. Scale bars: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1128.89751.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/767332" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 20" captionStartId="F20" captionText="Figure 20. Male dorso-posterior and dorsal terminalia of A V. bidens B V. evelynae C V. insularivorum D V. kapularum E V. malekulana F V. nunggoli G V. santoensis." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1128.89751.figure20" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/767346" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">, 20D</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 21" captionStartId="F21" captionText="Figure 21. Female face and dorsal terminalia of A V. bidens B V. discontinua C V. evelynae D V. insularivorum E V. kapularum F V. malekulana G V. nunggoli H V. rhomboides I V. santoensis J V. xanthochroa." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1128.89751.figure21" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/767347" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">, 21E</figureCitation>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="129" type="type material">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Type material.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Holotype</emphasis>
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(1
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</emphasis>
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♂
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">BYU).</emphasis>
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"VANUATU: Efate Is., | Ulei, June 11 2019; |
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<geoCoordinate degrees="17.5768" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="5" value="-17.5768">-17.5768</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate degrees="168.2960" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="5" value="168.296">168.2960</geoCoordinate>
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| Coll: SM Bybee, GS Powell | #BYU-VU-2019".
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Paratypes</emphasis>
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(2
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</emphasis>
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♂♂
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">BPBM, 7</emphasis>
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♂♂
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">BYU, 3</emphasis>
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♂♂
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">NHM, 4</emphasis>
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♂♂
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">1</emphasis>
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♀
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">NZAC). (6</emphasis>
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♂♂
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">BYU, 3</emphasis>
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♂♂
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">NHM, 2</emphasis>
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♂♂
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">NZAC).</emphasis>
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"VANUATU: Efate Is., | Ulei, June 11 2019; |
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<geoCoordinate degrees="17.5768" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="5" value="-17.5768">-17.5768</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate degrees="168.2960" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="5" value="168.296">168.2960</geoCoordinate>
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|Coll: SM Bybee, GS Powell | #BYU-VU-2019"
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">(1</emphasis>
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♂
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">BYU, 2</emphasis>
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♂♂
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">NZAC</emphasis>
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) "VANUATU: Efate Is., | Mele Maat, June 11, 2019;
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<geoCoordinate degrees="17.6754" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="5" value="-17.6754">-17.6754</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate degrees="168.2559" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="5" value="168.2559">168.2559</geoCoordinate>
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| Coll: SM Bybee, GS Powell | #BYU-VU-2019"
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">(1</emphasis>
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♀
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">NZAC</emphasis>
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) "VANUATU: Efate Is., |
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Point Rd., -17.684167 |168.253638, 12.vi.2018, | coll. S. Bybee & G. Powell".
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Allotype</emphasis>
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(1
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♀
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">BYU).</emphasis>
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"VANUATU: Efate Is., | Mele Maat, June 11, 2019;
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<geoCoordinate degrees="17.6754" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="5" value="-17.6754">-17.6754</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate degrees="168.2559" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="5" value="168.2559">168.2559</geoCoordinate>
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| Coll: SM Bybee, GS Powell | #BYU-VU-2019".
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="129" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Description of holotype.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Head</emphasis>
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: Labium overall pale beige; labrum blue, with black latero-posterior edges and medially, a depressed black spot at posterior edge; anteclypeus blue; genae, and mandibles (expect for reddish brown tips) blue with dark brown anterolateral edges; postclypeus overall covered by a black bar that begins medially and extends to the anterior edge, not extending to the blue, anterior corners; frons black medially, with blue lateral edges, abruptly changing to black posteriorly; scapes, and pedicels black, flagella dark brown and lightening apically; vertex and rear of head black with line of setae, a bronze shimmer, and white pruinescence; a pair of white post-ocular spots present; three pale ocelli with beige patch apical of the median ocellus; eyes green.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Thorax</emphasis>
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: Prothorax dorsally black with a bronze shimmer; laterally mottled appearance with dark brown, blue and hints of green; pronotum black with white pruinescence, latero-posterior corners rounded to obtuse angles and slightly explanate, mid-line obviously indented across the pronotum, hind lobe with raised ridge that is shorter than the width of the pronotum, overall sinusoidal, is curved outward medially, and extends to a sharp point that protrudes posteriorly; mesostigmal plate black with blue edges, interior edges protruding posteriorly, and raised to form very short lobes. Pterothorax with black carina; laterally, mesepisternum with black stripe reaching the dorsal carina and reaching over 1/2 the mesepimeron; blue stripe across the interpleural suture; metepisternum overall dark brown with black line located on metapleural suture near the base of the wings, extending ~ 1/6 the
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length; mesinfraepisternum black; metepimeron dark black and lightening anteriorly with white pruinescence; coxae, trochanters, and femora dorsally dark brown and ventrally beige with black spines; tibiae beige with smaller spines than that of the femora; tarsi beige with brown edges and small, dense spines; pale brown tarsal claws that darken apically to reddish tips, claws with a small tooth located on the basal 1/4 of their length.
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<caption doi="10.3897/zookeys.1128.89751.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/767332" pageId="0" pageNumber="129" start="Figure 6" startId="F6">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Figure 6.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Saxton & Marinov & Bybee" authorityYear="2022" class="Insecta" family="Coenagrionidae" genus="Vanuatubasis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Vanuatubasis kapularum" order="Odonata" pageId="0" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kapularum">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Vanuatubasis kapularum</emphasis>
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Holotype (♂ BYU)
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">A</emphasis>
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dorsal thorax
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">B</emphasis>
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lateral terminalia
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dorsal terminalia
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">D</emphasis>
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lateral habitus
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">V. kapularum</emphasis>
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Allotype (♀ BYU)
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dorsal thorax
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">F</emphasis>
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lateral terminalia. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.
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: Hyaline with dark brown to black venation that thickens dorsally; pterostigma pale brown and rhombus-shaped, darkest on the edges; CuP halfway between antenodals in both wings; arculus just distal of second antenodal crossvein in both wings; discoidal cells unequal with FW dorsal edge being 1/2 as long as HW. Nodal index: 15/2-2/13 in FW and 12/2-2/12 in HW.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Abdomen</emphasis>
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: Overall with dark brown to black dorsal stripe extending from S1-S10 and lightening to brown laterally, brown reaching ventrally at posterior edge of S3-S6, pale brown setae; S1 blue with white pruinescence; S2-S9 yellow; S9 with dorsal blue spot on posterior end; S10 with a pair of blue patches laterally; cerci dark brown with pale brown setae and appearing as a curved crescent shape dorsally, internal margins touching continuously with black, bulbous tips; paraprocts in dorsal view dark brown and darkening apically, with bumpy texture; in the lateral perspective the lobes are roughly triangular and tapering apically to form small, acutely rounded lobe, dorsal edge sloping ventrally and ventral edge expanding ventrally to form a small lump before abruptly tapering to rounded apex.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Measurements</emphasis>
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: total length 41 mm, abdomen 35 mm, HW 21 mm.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Variation</emphasis>
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. Male.
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Blue dorsal patch on S9 variable in shape and size; S10 lateral blue spots appear cream colored in some specimens. Size of the brown stripe on the metepisternum is somewhat variable. Immature males are yellow to dark beige.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Measurements</emphasis>
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: total length 39-42 mm, abdomen 33-36 mm, HW 21-22 mm (
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Description of allotype.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Head</emphasis>
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: Labium overall pale beige; labrum brown medially lightening towards the edges, except for dark brown postero-lateral edges and slightly indented medially dark brown spot at posterior edge; anteclypeus, genae, and mandibles (expect for reddish tips) pale brown; postclypeus translucent pale brown, with darker bar stretching across on the medial, anterior edge; frons pale brown abruptly changing to dark black posteriorly; scapes, and pedicels light brown, flagella pale brown and lightening apically; vertex and rear of head black with line of setae, a bronze shimmer, and faint white pruinescence; three pale ocelli with a beige patch apical of the median ocellus; eyes green.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Thorax</emphasis>
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: Prothorax dorsally black; laterally yellow with pale brown stripes; pronotum black medially with yellow lateral edges, latero-posterior corners rounded to obtuse angles and weakly explanate, mid-line obviously indented across the pronotum, hind lobe with raised ridge that is shorter than the width of the pronotum, is curved outward medially, and extends to a sharp point that protrudes posteriorly; mesostigmal black with yellow lateral edges, roughly triangular and not slightly raised medially. Pterothorax with black carina, laterally mesepisternum with black stripe reaching the dorsal carina and extending ~ 1/3 of the mesepisternum; latter 1/3 of mesepisternum yellow; mesepimeron yellow with short, black medial stripe; pale brown mesepisternum; metepisternum overall yellow, with short, black line located on metapleural suture near the base of the wings, extending ~ 1/6 the
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length; mesinfraepisternum yellow with dark brown medial spot; metepimeron pale yellow and lightening ventrally; coxae, trochanters, and femora dorsally brown and ventrally pale beige with black spines; tibiae pale brown with slightly darker, and smaller, spines than that of the femora; tarsi beige with dark brown edges and small, dense spines; pale brown tarsal claws that darken apically to reddish tips, claws with a small tooth located on the basal 1/4 of their length.
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: Hyaline with dark brown venation; pterostigma pale brown and rhombus-shaped; CuP halfway between antenodals in FW, and slightly proximal to halfway in HW; arculus at second antenodal crossvein in both wings; discoidal cells unequal with FW dorsal edge being 1/2 as long as HW. Nodal index: 13/2-2/12 in FW and 12/2-2/11 in HW.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Abdomen</emphasis>
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: Overall yellow with black dorsal stripe extending from S1-S9 and lightening towards the edges, with pale brown setae; black carina stripe extending ventrally on terminal edges of S2-S6; S9 with pale dorsal patch extending 3/4 of its length; S10 pale dorsally. Ovipositor overall beige, with brownish red serrated ventral edge, and pale brown setae; stylus with rounded edges, pale brown and lightening apically; gonapophysis reddish brown with slightly serrated dorsal edge. Cerci roughly triangular, dark brown, and narrowing to a rounded, acute point, dorsal edge straight.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Measurements</emphasis>
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(mm)
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: total length 37 mm, abdomen 32 mm, HW 21 mm.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Male.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Saxton & Marinov & Bybee" authorityYear="2022" class="Insecta" family="Coenagrionidae" genus="Vanuatubasis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Vanuatubasis kapularum" order="Odonata" pageId="0" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kapularum">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Vanuatubasis kapularum</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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can be distinguished from all other
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Ober & Staniczek" authorityYear="2009" class="Insecta" family="Coenagrionidae" genus="Vanuatubasis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Vanuatubasis" order="Odonata" pageId="0" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Vanuatubasis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, besides
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<taxonomicName lsidName="V. nunggoli" pageId="0" pageNumber="129" rank="species" species="nunggoli">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">V. nunggoli</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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by the presence of dark brown thoracic coloring on the metepisternum. It can be distinguished from
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<taxonomicName lsidName="V. nunggoli" pageId="0" pageNumber="129" rank="species" species="nunggoli">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">V. nunggoli</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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due to by having pale yellow paraprocts with dark tips, dorsally with inner angles forming ~ 90° angle and by the bright blue labrum.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Female.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Saxton & Marinov & Bybee" authorityYear="2022" class="Insecta" family="Coenagrionidae" genus="Vanuatubasis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Vanuatubasis kapularum" order="Odonata" pageId="0" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kapularum">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Vanuatubasis kapularum</emphasis>
|
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</taxonomicName>
|
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can be distinguished from other
|
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Ober & Staniczek" authorityYear="2009" class="Insecta" family="Coenagrionidae" genus="Vanuatubasis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Vanuatubasis" order="Odonata" pageId="0" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Vanuatubasis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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females by having a black area dorsally on S9 with relatively straight edges, dark colored cerci, and having the dorso-posterior corners of the mesostigmal plates raised in a small auricle.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="129" type="variation">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Variation.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Male.</emphasis>
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Blue dorsal patch on S9 variable in shape and size; S10 lateral blue spots appear cream colored in some specimens. Size of the brown stripe on the metepisternum is somewhat variable. Immature males are yellow to dark beige.
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||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">
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||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Measurements</emphasis>
|
||
(mm)
|
||
</emphasis>
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||
: total length 39-42 mm, abdomen 33-36 mm, HW 21-22 mm (
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">n</emphasis>
|
||
= 10).
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Female.</emphasis>
|
||
S9 and S10 dorsal patch blue in some specimens; thoracic coloring more blue than yellow in mature specimens.
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Measurements</emphasis>
|
||
(mm)
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
: total length 37-40 mm, abdomen 32-34 mm, HW 21-22 mm (
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">n</emphasis>
|
||
= 2).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="129" type="distribution">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Distribution.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Efate, Vanuatu.</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="129" type="etymology">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Etymology.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">
|
||
The specific epithet
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Saxton & Marinov & Bybee" authorityYear="2022" class="Insecta" family="Coenagrionidae" genus="Vanuatubasis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Vanuatubasis kapularum" order="Odonata" pageId="0" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kapularum">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Vanuatubasis kapularum</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is here treated as a noun in the genitive case, in honor of the Kapula family who were among the first to show us the wonders of Vanuatu.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="129" type="notes">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">Notes.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="129">This species was observed feeding on spiders at the Ewor River locality. One male specimen was collected with a spider in its mandibles.</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
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</document> |