Protosticta damacornu Terzani & Carletti, 1998

Joshi, Shantanu, Sarkar, Vivek, Sawant, Dattaprasad, Pawar, Ujwala & Kunte, Krushnamegh, 2024, Description of Protosticta khasia sp. nov. and Yunnanosticta siangi sp. nov., with new records of P. samtsensis Gurung & Phan, 2023 from Northeast India (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platystictidae), Zootaxa 5448 (3), pp. 348-370 : 349

Protosticta damacornu Terzani & Carletti

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Comments. Terzani & Carletti (1998) described this species based on a single male collected from “NE India, Megahalaya, East Khasi Hills, Umran, 33 km N of Shillong ”. There have been no additional records of the species since the description. The illustrations of caudal appendages in the original description are lacking details, which became an impediment to comparing this species with gathered Protosticta material from northeast India. We were able to acquire images of the holotype male deposited at the Natural History Museum, University of Florence, Italy, and are providing photographs of holotype’s caudal appendages from ventral and ventro-lateral view that are reproduced here with permission ( Fig. 1 ).

No further specimens are known.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Protosticta damacornu holotype male [specimen broken]: (a) lateral habitus; (b–c) caudal appendages: (b) ventral view; (c) ventro-lateral view. Photo Courtesy: Saulo Bambi / Natural History Museum, University of Florence, Italy.