Dimeragrion baniwa, Mendoza-Penagos & Kenzy & Gonçalves & Vilela, 2023

Mendoza-Penagos, Cristian Camilo, Kenzy, Myckey, Gonçalves, Silva & Vilela, Diogo Silva, 2023, A new species of Dimeragrion Calvert, 1913 (Odonata: Zygoptera: Heteragrionidae) from Northwestern Brazil, Zootaxa 5318 (3), pp. 411-420 : 412

Dimeragrion baniwa sp. nov.

( Figs. 1 a−g, 2a−c, 3a−c, 4a−c)

Examined material (13♁♁ & 3♀♀)

Holotype. ♁ ( LABECO, N° 12276), BRAZIL, Amazonas, S „o Gabriel da Cachoeira , (0.017, -66.891, 81 m a.s.l.), first-order stream inside Terra Firme Forest, in lateral swamps: 29.xi.2021, C.C. Mendoza-Penagos & M. Gonçalves, leg., deposited in INPA.

Allotype. ♀ ( LABECO, N° 12278), same data as holotype but: (-0.172 -66.998, 78 m a.s.l.), 14.xii.2021.

Paratypes. 1♁ ( LABECO, N° 12270) , same data as holotype, deposited in INPA ; 2♁♁ ( LABECO, N° 12264, 12269) same data as previously but: (0.069 -66.829, 88 m a.s.l.), 28.xi.2021, deposited in INPA ; 1♁ ( LABECO, N° 12277), same data as previously but: (0.156 -66.799, 87 m a.s.l.), 29.xi.2021, deposited in INPA ; 7♁♁ ( LABECO, N° 12265-12268, 12271, 12272, 12274), 1♀ ( LABECO, N° 12279) same data as previously but: (-0.164 -67.007, 84 m a.s.l.), 03.xii.2021, deposited in MPEG ; 2♁♁ ( LABECO, N° 12273, 12275), 1♀ ( LABECO, N° 122263) same data as previously but: (-0.172 -66.998, 78 m a.s.l.), 28.xi.2021, M. Gonçalves leg., deposited in LABECO .

Etymology. Named baniwa (noun in apposition) in honor to the indigenous people of the Baniwa tribe which lives in and protects the Amazon Forest, and its ancestral traditions.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Dimeragrion baniwa. Holotype from Amazonas State, Brazil: (a) left view of habitus; (b) detail of head frontal view; (c) detail of head dorsal view; (d) hind wing; (e) S1–2 ventral view; (f) genital ligula ectal view; (g) genital ligula lateral view. Abbreviations: Flg, lateral flagella; Tf, terminal fold; VTb, ventral tubercle. Scale bar = 1 mm.