Heteragrion tiradentense Machado & Bedê, 2006

Vilela, Diogo Silva, Lencioni, Frederico A. A., Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A., Ware, Jessica L. & Bispo, Pitágoras C., 2023, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Heteragrion Selys, 1862 (Zygoptera: Heteragrionidae): male morphology, new species and illustrated key, Zootaxa 5356 (1), pp. 1-96 : 86-87

Heteragrion tiradentense Machado & Bedê, 2006

( Figs. 64a–f )

[Key locator: Key to Group A species, couplet 29 (27’)] Heteragrion tiradentense: Machado & Bedê 2006: 4754 (description and diagnosis of ♁ and ♀; compared with H. muryense , H. ovatum and H. petiense ; figs. 1–5);— Garrison et al. 2010: 88 (list of Heteragrion species);— Souza et al. 2013: 1368 (list of species from Mata do Baú);— Lencioni 2013: 13–14 (synonymic list, types, distribution, diagnosis; figs. 24, 36d–f, 45d–f, 48c–d, 54, 64, 73);— Bedê et al. 2015: 121 (recorded to Serra de São José, Minas Gerais state);— Lencioni 2017: 159–160 (general taxonomic information; distribution; figs. 82–83);—Ávila-Jr. et al. 2020: 128–129 (comparison with H. itacolomii ; figs. 9a, e, i).

Material examined. 1♁ (HOLOTYPE) BRAZIL, Minas Gerais state, Tiradentes, Libélulas da Serra de São Jose State Wildelife Refuge ( Chafariz creek at the Mãe D’- Água forest ), 11.xi.1996, (-21.1044, -44.1783), L.C. Bede & W. Piper leg., ABMM ; 2♁♁ (PARATYPES) same data, but 1.xi.1999 .

Known distribution. Brazil (states of Minas Gerais and São Paulo).

Diagnosis and remarks. The following character combination distinguishes this species from the remainder of Group A species: upper plate very short, wider than long, roughly triangular, bearing small teeth on its border ( Figs. 64d–f ); ML apex acute ( Fig. 64f ).

Figures

FIGURE 64. Heteragrion tiradentense: (a–b) anterior view of head; (c) lateral view of pterothorax; (d–f) mediodorsal view of cercus.