Wahnesia tagula, Polhemus & Kalkman, 2021

Polhemus, Dan A. & Kalkman, Vincent J., 2021, Four new species of Wahnesia Förster, 1900 from the D’Entrecasteaux, Louisiade and Woodlark island groups, Papua New Guinea (Odonata: Argiolestidae), Zootaxa 5004 (3), pp. 447-464 : 457

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5004.3.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:92395444-B82C-46C2-A1B7-A77AD40E65DC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5120760

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/790F878F-FFA7-FFD8-1D9C-FF0E0BCEDC85

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Plazi

scientific name

Wahnesia tagula
status

sp. nov.

Wahnesia tagula spec. nov.

( Figs 8 View FIGURE 8 , 11 View FIGURES 9–12 , 13, 14 View FIGURES 13–16 )

Holotype: ♂ PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Milne Bay Prov., Louisiade Archipelago, Tagula [Sudest] Island , Kalitau Creek , 1 km. upstream from head of estuary, 0–30 m a.s.l., 11°21’52”S, 153°14’26”E (-11.364361, 153.240556), water temp. 24.4°C., 29.VIII.2002, 09:30–14:30 hrs., CL 7190, D.A. Polhemus ( BPBM). GoogleMaps

Paratypes: 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, same data as holotype ( USNM, BPBM) GoogleMaps .

Additional material examined (not paratypes): PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Milne Bay Prov., Tagula Is.: 2 ♂♂, Joe Landing, [vic. -11.424666, 153.383066], 17–19.VIII.1956, leg. 5th Archbold Expedition ( RMNH) GoogleMaps [the locality on the envelope reads: “ Sudest, Station 9,” with additional locality details taken from Brass (1959)]; 4 ♂♂, 21.VIII.1956, idem; 3 ♂♂, 21–22.VIII.1956, idem (all RMNH) GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀, west slopes of Mount Riu (Mt Rattlesnake), [vic. -11.481211, 153.412504], 1.VIII.1956, leg. 5th Archbold Expedition ( RMNH) GoogleMaps [the locality on the envelope reads: “ Sudest, Camp 10,” with additional locality details taken from Brass (1959)]; 2 ♀♀, 31.VIII.1956, idem; 1 ♂, 30.VIII.1956, idem (all RMNH) GoogleMaps .

Etymology. The name “tagula” refers to Tagula Island, to which this species is endemic.

BPBM

Bishop Museum

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Odonata

Family

Argiolestidae

Genus

Wahnesia

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