Protosticta linnaei van Tol, 2008

Kompier, Tom, 2016, New species of Protosticta Selys from Vietnam with a key to the males of the P. curiosa group (Odonata: Platystictidae), Zootaxa 4193 (2), pp. 347-360 : 354

3. Protosticta linnaei van Tol, 2008

( Figs. 10–11 )

Specimens examined. 3Ƌ 1♀, along AH17, Quang Nam Province, 15.V.2016, T. Kompier leg.

Description of female ( Fig. 10 ). Head. Anteclypeus and labrum bluish white with inferior margin of labrum broadly edged black. Genae black with some white adjacent to labrum. First and second segment of antennae pale yellow, second tipped brown, remainder missing; postclypeus, frons, vertex and occiput entirely black. Prothorax. Pale yellow, but posterior lobe black. Synthorax. Mesepisternum and mesepimeron black. Mesinfraepisternum almost completely black, but small pale yellow area adjacent to coxa. Metepisternum and metepimeron pale yellow with broad black stripe over metapleural suture continuing over metinfraepisternum. Legs. Pale yellow with black stripe over flexor surface; spines and claws brown. Wings. Hyaline, 14 postnodal crossveins in forewing, 13 in hindwing. Pterostigma dark brown, covering one cell. Abdomen. Colored as follows: S1–2 dark brown dorsally and pale yellow ventrally; S3–7 dark brown with pale yellow anterior apical ring, pale yellow posterior subapical ring (absent on S6–7) and posterior blackish brown apical ring; S8 blackish brown, anterior half of venter pale yellow; S9–10 and ovipositor blackish brown, its tip yellow. Anal appendages. Brown, short.

Measurements (mm). Hindwing 21, abdomen including appendages 35.

Figures

FIGURE 10. Female P. linnaei, 15. V. 2016, Quang Nam Province.

FIGURE 11. Male P. linnaei, 15. V. 2016, Quang Nam Province.