Sapho venusta Karsch, 1889

Mélanie Turiault, 2016, The type material of Calopterygidae in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (Odonata), Odonatologica 45 (1), pp. 95-106 : 104

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.50852
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6081439
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scientific name	Sapho venusta Karsch, 1889
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Original combination: Sapho venusta Karsch, 1889 View in CoL

Status: available species-group name; junior synonym

Current combination: Sapho orichalcea McLachlan, 1869

Type material. One female ( Fig.5 View Figure 5 ); collecting locality: Africa; collector: unknown

Verbatim label data female 4a9572: (1) [pieces of abdomen and one leg adhere to the label]; (2)» Typus « [printed]; (3) » Sapho venusta / Karsch *« [handwritten]; (4)»http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/4a9572« [printed].

Notes. Karsch (1889) wrote: »Das Königliche Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin besitzt vier Sapho -Arten, [...] und eine der S. orichalcea im weiblichen Geschlechte ähnliche, noch unbeschriebene Art aus Afrika, leider ohne nähere Angaben des Fundorts und in nur einem einzigen Exemplare: Sapho venusta , nov. spec., ♀, [...]«. This description is based on one single female, which was found in the Berlin collection and is consequently the holotype.