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Calicnemia erythromelas Selys 1891

Description

Calicnemia erythromelas (Selys, 1891)

(Figure 4 A–C)

Calicnemia erythromelas: Asahina, 1997: 22 –23, Figs. 20–21 (Sa Pa, Lao Cai Prov.); Do & Dang, 2007: 55, Distribution map (Sa Pa, Lao Cai Prov.; Tam Dao, Vinh Phuc Prov.); Kitawaga & Katatani, 2014: 81 –82, Figs. 8 –14 (Vietnam).

Specimens examined. 1♂ 1♀, Pia Oac, Cao Bang Prov., 16.V.2015, Quoc Toan Phan leg.; 1♂ 1 ♀, same location, 22–24.V.2010, Haruki Karube leg.; 1♂ 1♀, 11.V.2014, Tu Le, Yen Bai Prov., Tom Kompier leg.

Notes. This is a group 1 species on the basis of its genital ligula with two long flagella (Fig. 4 C). It is characterized by its thoracic and abdominal color pattern in both sexes and by the acutely pointed cerci with large and deeply bifurcated ventral tooth (Fig. 4 A–B). Paraprocts slender and straight, blunt–tipped and as long as cerci.

Distribution. Sa Pa, Lao Cai Prov.; Tam Dao National Park, Vinh Phuc Prov.; Pia Oac Nature Reserve, Cao Bang Prov.; Tu Le, Yen Bai Prov.

Notes

Published as part of Phan, Quoc Toan, Kompier, Tom & Karube, Haruki, 2017, Description of two new Calicnemia from Vietnam and central Laos with notes on their congeners in Vietnam (Odonata: Platycnemididae), pp. 409-420 in Zootaxa 4232 (3) on pages 413-414, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/293232

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2010-05-22 , 2015-05-16
Family
Platycnemididae
Genus
Calicnemia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Odonata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Selys
Species
erythromelas
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2010-05-22/24 , 2015-05-16
Taxonomic concept label
Calicnemia erythromelas Selys, 1891 sec. Phan, Kompier & Karube, 2017

References

  • Asahina, S. (1997) Records of the Northern Vietnamese Odonata taken by the expedition embers from the National Science Museum, Tokyo. 5. Coenagrionidae, Protoneuridae, Platycnemididae. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Series A Zoology, 23 (1), 17 - 34.
  • Do, M. C. & Dang, T. T. H. (2007) Checklist of dragonflies from Uietnam. Vietnam National University Publisher, Hanoi, 182 pp.
  • Kitagawa, K. & Katatani, N. (2014) Notes on the Odonate fauna of Southeast Asia. Part 4. Platycnemididae 1 (Genus Calicnemia). Aeschna, 50, 79 - 89.