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Orchithemis pulcherrima Brauer 1878

  • 1. Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia. & Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • 2. Program Studi Biologi Fakultas MIPA Dan Kesehatan, Universitas Muhammadiyah Riau, Indonesia.
  • 3. Restorasi Ekosistem Riau, Pangkalan Kerinci
  • 4. Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Cibinong, Kabupaten Bogor, Jawa Barat 16911, Indonesia. & Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA.
  • 5. Restorasi Ekosistem Riau, Pangkalan Kerinci, Riau.
  • 6. Program Studi Biologi Fakultas MIPA Dan Kesehatan, Universitas Muhammadiyah Riau, Indonesia
  • 7. Restorasi Ekosistem Riau, Pangkalan Kerinci, Riau

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Orchithemis pulcherrima Brauer, 1878

Selected references:

Orchithemis pulcherrima Brauer, 1878;— Selys 1889: 460 (first record from Sumatra: Bangka);— Karsch 1891: 245 (first record from mainland Sumatra: North Sumatra);— Dow et al. 2018: 16 (first record from Riau).

Specimens collected. M4a: 1 ♂ (RER23 _ LIB192; RER), 5 vi 2023; M5f: 2 ♂♂ (RER23 _ LIB193, 196; BRIN), 6 vi 2023; 1 ♂ (RER23 _ LIB194; UMRI), 6 vi 2023; 1 ♂ (RER23 _ LIB195; RER), 6 vi 2023; M5g: 1 ♂ (RER23 _ LIB327; UMRI), 28 ix 2023; P1b: 1 ♂ (RER23 _ LIB188; UMRI), 31 v 2023; 1 ♂ (RER23 _ LIB189; RER), 31 v 2023; 1 ♂ (RER2 _ LIB190; BRIN), 2 vi 2023; P1c: 1 ♂ (RER23 _ LIB191; UMRI), 2 vi 2023; P1d: 1 ♀ (RER23 _ LIB186; RER), 30 v 2023; 1 ♀ (RER23 _ LIB187; BRIN), 30 v 2023.

Remarks. Although eventually recorded from six locations in the Kampar Peninsula, O. pulcherrima was not found at all during the surveys in January 2020 and February 2023. This is generally a common species in swamp forest so its apparent absence early in the year is curious but could be an artefact of sampling effort.

Notes

Published as part of Dow, Rory A., Gesriantuti, Novia, Iqbal, Muhammad, Lupiyan-Ingdyah, Pungki, Periera, John F., Zulya, Shinta O. & Sanders, Bradford M., 2025, Odonata of the Kampar Peninsula: the first systematic survey of Odonata in Peat Swamp Forest in Sumatra, pp. 1-70 in Zootaxa 5732 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5732.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/18019483

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  • Brauer, F. M. (1878) Uber einige neue Gattungen und Artena us der Ordnung der Neuropteren Lin. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe Abt. 1 Mineralogie, Botanik, Zoologie, Geologie und Palaontologie, 77, 193-206.
  • de Selys Longchamps, E. de (1889) Odonates de Sumatra comprenant les especes recueillies a Pulo Nias par M. le Dr. E. Modigliani. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie 2, 7, 444-484.
  • Karsch, F. A. F. (1891) Sumatranische Odonaten, gesammelt von Herrn Hofrath Dr. med. L. Martin in Bindjei (Deli). Entomologische Nachrichten, 17 (16), 241-247.
  • Dow, R. A., Advento, A. D., Turner, E. C., Caliman, J. - P., Foster, W. A., Naim, M., Snaddon, J. L. & Ps, S. (2018) Odonata from the BEFTA Project area, Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. Faunistic Studies in South-East Asian and Pacific Island Odonata, 24, 1-22.