Calicnemia erythromelas (Selys, 1891)

Phan, Quoc Toan, Kompier, Tom & Karube, Haruki, 2017, Description of two new Calicnemia from Vietnam and central Laos with notes on their congeners in Vietnam (Odonata: Platycnemididae), Zootaxa 4232 (3), pp. 409-420 : 413-414

Calicnemia erythromelas (Selys, 1891)

( Figure 4 A–C)

Calicnemia erythromelas: Asahina, 1997: 22 –23, Figs. 20–21 (Sa Pa, Lao Cai Prov.) ; Do & Dang, 2007: 55, Distribution map (Sa Pa, Lao Cai Prov.; Tam Dao, Vinh Phuc Prov.); Kitawaga & Katatani, 2014: 81 –82, Figs. 8 –14 ( Vietnam).

Specimens examined. 1♂ 1♀, Pia Oac , Cao Bang Prov., 16.V.2015, Quoc Toan Phan leg. ; 1♂ 1 ♀, same location, 22–24.V.2010, Haruki Karube leg. ; 1♂ 1♀, 11.V.2014, Tu Le, Yen Bai Prov., Tom Kompier leg.

Notes. This is a group 1 species on the basis of its genital ligula with two long flagella ( Fig. 4 C). It is characterized by its thoracic and abdominal color pattern in both sexes and by the acutely pointed cerci with large and deeply bifurcated ventral tooth ( Fig. 4 A–B). Paraprocts slender and straight, blunt–tipped and as long as cerci.

Distribution. Sa Pa, Lao Cai Prov.; Tam Dao National Park, Vinh Phuc Prov.; Pia Oac Nature Reserve, Cao Bang Prov.; Tu Le, Yen Bai Prov.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Structure of Calicnemia spp. [A – C] C. erythromelas (Pia Oac); [D – F] C. eximia (Pia Oac); [G – J] C. miles (Pia Oac). Anal appendages in (A, D, G), lateral and (B, E, H), oblique-dorsal view; genital ligula in (C), oblique-dorsal, (F, I), dorsal and (J), lateral view.

FIGURE 8. Calicnemia soccifera in nature. (A), mature male; (B), immature male; (C), immature female. Photographed by Tom Kompier in Nam Bung, Yen Bai Prov., 30. IV. 2014.