Lais pudica, Hagen in Selys, 1853

Mélanie Turiault, 2016, The type material of Calopterygidae in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (Odonata), Odonatologica 45 (1), pp. 95-106 : 103

Original combination: Laïs pudica Hagen in Selys, 1853

Status: available species-group name; valid species

Current combination: Mnesarete pudica (Hagen in Selys, 1853)

Type material. One male, one female; collecting locality: Brazil; collector: Friedrich Sellow (Sello)

Verbatim label data male 4a9508: ( 1) » Pudica / Hagen / Brasil. Sellow« [handwritten]; ( 2) » Typus « [printed]; ( 3) »Zool. Mus. / Berlin« [printed]; ( 4) » 2275 « [printed]; ( 5) »Note: abdominal / segments 8-10 are / those of Hetaerina / probably H. hebe Sélys / R. Garrison 1997 « [handwritten]; ( 6) » Lais (=Mnesareta) pudica Hagen « [printed]; ( 7) »http://coll.mfnberlin.de/u/ 4a9508 « [printed].

Verbatim label data female 4a9509: ( 1) »ad 2275 / Brasilien / Sello.« [handwritten]; ( 2) » Typus « [printed]; ( 3) »Zool. Mus. / Berlin« [printed]; ( 4)»http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/ 4a9509 « [printed].

Notes. In his more detailed description in Hagen & Selys ( 1854), H.A. Hagen described male and female characteristics, also age related differences (for example, » ♂ jeune«), and mentioned: »Patrie. La province d’Ypanema au Brésil, d’où le Musée de Vienne l’a reçue par M. Natterer. − Le Brésil, d’après les exemplaires du Musée de Berlin pris par M. Sellow«. The male and the female specimens preserved in the Berlin collection should be considered syntypes. According to St. Quentin ( 1970) two male syntypes from Brasil (Ypanema) are deposited in coll. NHMW.