Ceylonosticta hilaris (Hagen, 1860)

Tol, Van, 2016, Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the Platystictidae of Sri Lanka (Insecta: Odonata), Zootaxa 4182 (1), pp. 1-80 : 31

13. Ceylonosticta hilaris (Hagen, 1860)

Figs 70−74 , 154−155 ; Map 6.

Platysticta hilaris, Hagen in Selys, 1860 , Bull. Acad. r. Belg. (2)10: 439−440.

Platysticta hilaris — Selys (1860): 439 −440 [original description of Ƌ and ♀].

Ceylonosticta hilaris — Fraser (1931a): 67, fig 2b [figure of Ƌ penis];— Fraser (1931b): 326, 329, 330−331, pl. II, figs. 5&6 [description of Ƌ and ♀, differential characters, figures of Ƌ anal appendages, determination key];─ Fraser (1933a): 128 −130, fig. 60 [description of Ƌ and ♀, differential characters, figures of Ƌ anal appendages, determination key];─ Fraser (1933b): 201, 204, 216−217, fig. 9 [description of Ƌ and ♀, differential characters, figures of Ƌ anal appendages, determination key, habitat description].

Drepanosticta hilaris — Bedjanič et al. (2014): 120 −121 [differential characters, biology, distribution, threat status, Ƌ and ♀ photographs], Appendix 2, p. 296 [summary of known faunistic records].

SPECIES DIAGNOSIS IN THE KEY → 14b; NUMBER OF KNOWN LOCALITIES— Bedjanič et al. (2014): 11.

Figures

FIGURES 70 – 74. Ceylonosticta hilaris — (70) thorax and head, lateral view [male]; (71) prothorax, lateral view [male]; (72) anal appendages, lateral view [male]; (73) thorax and head, lateral view [female]; (74) prothorax, lateral view [female]. [Material origin: male—Laxapana, Nuwara Eliya District, Sri Lanka; female—Deniyaya, Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka]

FIGURES 154 – 159. Coloration in life: Ceylonosticta hilaris — (154) male, (155) female; Ceylonosticta lankanensis — (156) male, (157) female; Ceylonosticta walli — (158) male, (159) female [photos: M. Bedjanič, fig. 156 photo: K. Conniff].