A Catalogue and Historical Study of the Odonata of Ecuador
Mauffray, William F.
Tennessen, Kenneth J.
Zootaxa
2019
2019-07-03
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3G32
St. Quentin, 1960
St. Quentin
1960
[151,525,1697,1724]
Insecta
Coenagrionidae
Calvertagrion
Animalia
Odonata
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46
Arthropoda
genus
Small damselflies, the one species recorded in Ecuadormarked with blue and black on head and thorax, abdomen mostly black with narrow green rings and yellow on sides, but young adults are orange-ocher with the abdomen greenish yellow ( Fig. 18). See Tennessen (2015)for identification. Habitat includes small marshy streams and shallow pools and ditches near rainforest. Nymph is unknown. Calvertagrion mauffrayi Tennessen, 2015. Publ. Recs. OR:* Tennessen (2015 — Holotype ♂: P.N.Y., ditch near Río Savaleto, Yasuni Road km marker 31 ( -0.4700, -76.5850), 12 vi 1995, leg. KJT (FSCA); Allotype ♀: same data but, 7 vi 1996, leg. KJT [FSCA]); NA: Tennessen (2015); SU: Tennessen (2015). Also COL: Bota-Sierra et al.(2018). Note: From Tennessen (2015), “ Calvertagrion mauffrayiwas collected in a variety of shallow ponds and ditch- es filled with water in the upper Amazon basin of Ecuador, perching on and/or flying low amidst grasses and other partly shady vegetation. They did not occur in nearby deeply shaded rainforest.”