Published May 13, 2024 | Version v1
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Yunnanosticta Dow & Zhang 2018

  • 1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 72701, Arkansas, USA & National Centre for Biological Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bellary Rd, Bengaluru, 560065, Karnataka, India
  • 2. Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, 248001, Uttarakhand, India
  • 3. Government Medical College and Hospital, Sindhudurg, 416534, Maharashtra, India
  • 4. National Centre for Biological Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bellary Rd, Bengaluru, 560065, Karnataka, India

Description

Key to males of Yunnanosticta spp.

1. Cerci without any prominent spur or tooth at inferior border near apex; paraproct conical without notched apical portion, only apices upcurved (Fig. 14c–d)...................................................................... Y. siangi

Cerci with a spur or tooth at the inferior border near apex; paraproct conical with notched and upwards curved apical portion.................................................................................................... 2

2. Blue prothorax; cerci globular in dorsal view, tooth-like projection near inferior border of cerci apex; paraproct with a shallow notch (Figs. 14a–b)....................................................................... Y. cyaneocollaris

Dark brown prothorax with two blue spots and blue posterior lobe; cerci roughly conical, a small spur near the inferior border of cerci apex; paraproct deeply notched (Figs. 14e–f).................................................. Y. wilsoni

Notes

Published as part of 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), pp. 348-370 in Zootaxa 5448 (3) on page 369, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/11231707

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