Argia huanacina Förster, 1914

Garrison, Rosser W. & Ellenrieder, Natalia Von, 2018, Damselflies of the genus Argia (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) from Ecuador with descriptions of five new species, Zootaxa 4470 (1), pp. 1-69 : 17-18

Argia huanacina Förster, 1914

Figs. 76 (mesostigmal plates ♀), 110 (app ♂), 140 (map).

Argia huanacina Förster 1914: 67 , 68 [5, 6 separate], (description of ♂, " Heimat: Ob. Madre de Dios, Peru, 500 m s. m. 1 ♂ ad. Marcapata, Peru. ♂, ♀. Typen in meiner Sammlung."); Schmidt 1942: 233 ( Peru); Soukup 1954: 11 ( Peru); Rácenis 1959: 475 ( Peru); Butt 1995: 96 (Tambopata, Peru); Garrison et al. 2003: 31 (type catalog); Heckman 2008: 366 (key, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia); Hoffmann 2009: 27, 38 ( Peru); Garrison & von Ellenrieder 2015: 25 (key, illustration of mesostigmal plates, appendages).

Types. of huanacina : 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ syntypes. ♂: PERU / Maracapata; F. Forster / Collection; Argia / huanacina Forster TYPE ♂ / 1914. Beitrage Gatt. u. Art. Lib. / (III) Arch. Nat. Jahrg. 80A 2:67–68 [3 labels by L.K. Gloyd]; ♂: Argia Forster /huanacina n. sp. / Type and Ob[ere] Madre de Dios /Peru 500 m [labels F. Forster pasted on envelope]; ♀: same data as first ♂. The original envelope next to the first (pinned) syntype has the following in Forster's hand: M. [in red ink] Argia ♀ [sic, in pencil], huanacina / ♀. An added notation by L. K. Gloyd states: ♂ was in this / envelope. L.K. Gloyd 1933. On the other side of the envelope is the following in Förster's hand: ♂ [undecipherable] M / [undecipherable] III / [undecipherable letters] (examined; Garrison et al. 2003: 31).

Specimens examined (only those from Ecuador listed). 1 ♂, Zamora-Chinchipe Prov.: stream, north side of Guaguayme Bajo (3°54'30" S, 78°52'12" W), 2008 April 4, K. J. Tennessen leg. [ FSCA] .

Remarks: This species was treated and illustrated in Garrison & von Ellenrieder (2015). von Ellenrieder & Garrison (2007) followed by Heckman (2008) illustrated the appendages of a male in the RBINS with the manuscript name " lateralis " by Selys as A. huanacina . This is incorrect. Subsequent examination of these specimens showed the manuscript name lateralis Selys to represent A. infrequentula as can be seen by comparing Figs. 6 l-n from von Ellenrieder & Garrison (2007) and Fig. 3.1. 427 in Heckman (2008) to Figs. 10 l 2 and 10 p 2 in Garrison & von Ellenrieder (2015).

This species is most similar to A. selysi and is diagnosed under that species. Though largely allopatric with A. selysi , a male A. huanacina has been collected in southern Ecuador ( Fig. 140 ) representing a new record for that country.

Figures

FIGURES 73–76. Female mesostigmal plates. (a) dorsal view; (b) detail of mesostigmal lobe, dorsal view; (c) frontal (anterior) view; (d) detail of mesostigmal lobe, anteromedial view; (e) laterodorsal view; (f) detail of mesostigmal lobe, anterior view; (g) detail of mesostigmal lobe, posterior view; (h) posterior view.

FIGURES 1–8. Color pattern of head. Head, anterior view (1); head posterior view (2–5); labrum, anterior view (6–8).

FIGURES 9–13. Color pattern of male head, thorax, and S1–4. Head, dorsal view, thorax and S1–4, lateral view.

FIGURES 140–141. Distribution of new Argia species and closest congeners in Ecuador.