Monday, May 31, 2021

[Entomology • 2021] Heteragrion gorbi • A New Species of Heteragrion (Odonata: Heteragrionidae) from southeastern Brazil

 

Heteragrion gorbi
 Cezário & Guillermo-Ferreira, 2021

 
Abstract
Heteragrion gorbi sp. nov. (Zygoptera: Heteragrionidae) is described and diagnosed based on six ♂ and one ♀. The specimens were collected in a stream in a Neotropical savannah fragment in São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil. We present pictures of the holotype and the female. This is a species with blue coloration pattern, rare among its congeners.

Keywords: Odonata, dragonfly, damselfly, taxonomy, biodiversity, Cerrado, new species

 

Heteragrion gorbi. Paratype (a) collected in copula with a female (b).
 

Rodrigo Roucourt Cezário and Rhainer Guillermo-Ferreira. 2021. Heteragrion gorbi sp. nov. (Odonata: Heteragrionidae) from southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa. 4965(1); 78–86. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4965.1.3

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