Epipleoneura fuscaenea Williamson, 1915

Pessacq, Pablo, 2014, Synopsis of Epipleoneura (Zygoptera, Coenagrionidae, “ Protoneuridae ”), with emphasis on its Brazilian species, Zootaxa 3872 (3), pp. 201-234 : 213-214

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.3.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5296814

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scientific name

Epipleoneura fuscaenea Williamson, 1915
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Epipleoneura fuscaenea Williamson, 1915 View in CoL

( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 16 – 18 )

Epipleoneura fuscaenea Williamson 1915: 627 View in CoL –629, plate 44, figs. 29–30 (new species, male description, illustration of S10 lateral and dorsal view, Type material at NMNH). Kennedy 1917: 294, plate xxiii fig. 30–31 (illustration of genital ligula in lateral and ectal view). Rácenis 1960: 25–26 (included in list of species, recorded for British Guyana). De Marmels 1985: 88–89, figs. 1–2 (new record for Venezuela, description of epiproct, illustrations of S 10 in postero-dorsal and oblique-posterior view). Garrison et al. 2010: 352–354, fig. 2342 (included in list of species, illustrations of epiproct in posterior view). Von Ellenrieder 2011: 59, 73 (record from Suriname).

Diagnosis. Epipleoneura fuscaenea is easily distinguished from other species by the presence of a dorso-ventrally flattened cercus dorsal branch with an apical hook ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 16 – 18 ) and the characteristic epiproct ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 16 – 18 b–c) with two long and narrow divergent branches, similar only to that of E. metallica , from which it differs by cercus morphology. Other species with dorso-ventrally flattened cercus dorsal branch (i.e. E. angeloi , E. solitaria De Marmels, 1989 ) lack the apical hook. The apex of segment 3 of genital ligula has two triangular lobes separated by a V cleft; the postero-lateral projection is directed posteriorly with conspicuous peduncle and the apex approximately triangular. Female unknown.

Distribution. Wismar, Guyana (type locality). Culebra, Amazonas State, Venezuela (03°33'N, 65°50'W). Brokopondo, Gansee, Suriname ( Garrison et al. 2010); Kwamalasamutu, Sipaliwini, Suriname (von Ellenrieder 2011).

Notes. During my brief visit to the MIZA collection in 2009, I examined material of E. fuscaenea in order to conduct a phylogenetic analysis; unfortunately, I did not draw the studied specimens but only did a schematic drawing of the genital ligula.

MIZA

Museo del Instituto de Zoologia Agricola Francisco Fernandez Yepez

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Odonata

Family

Protoneuridae

Genus

Epipleoneura

Loc

Epipleoneura fuscaenea Williamson, 1915

Pessacq, Pablo 2014
2014
Loc

Epipleoneura fuscaenea

Williamson 1915: 627
1915
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