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Orthetrum andamanicum Bedjanič & Kalkman & Subramanian 2020, sp. nov.

  • 1. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • 2. Zoological Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, Santhome High Road, Chennai- 600 028, Tamil Nadu, India. subbuka. zsi @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0872 - 9771

Description

Orthetrum andamanicum sp. nov.

(Figs. 1, 2, 3–5, 6, 7, 8)

Type material. Holotype: 1♂ (mature) (RMNH.INS.1152911)—[in smeared / discoloured ink on the poorly read- able original label: no stream nr. main road …], Chidiyatapu; South Andaman island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India; [app. N 11.51, E 92.71]; 08-xii-1998; [Prashant Mohanraj and K. Veenakumari leg.] (in RMNH).

Paratype: 1♂ (mature)— Garacharma, Central Agricultural Research Institute - C.A.R.I. campus; South Anda- man island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India; alt. 70 m; N 11.610 6, E 92.7157; 28-vii-1996; Prashant Mohanraj and K. Veenakumari leg. (in RMNH)

Etymology. The species epithet is an adjective; andamanicum, after the Andaman Islands, the island group from which the type locality and distribution of this new species is known.

Notes

Published as part of Bedjanič, M., Kalkman, V. J. & Subramanian, K. A., 2020, A new species of Orthetrum Newman, 1833 (Odonata: Libellulidae) from the Andaman Islands, India, pp. 91-100 in Zootaxa 4779 (1) on page 92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/3831764

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Additional details

Identifiers

Biodiversity

Collection code
RMNH
Event date
1996-07-28 , 1998-12-08
Verbatim event date
1996-07-28 , 1998-12-08
Scientific name authorship
Bedjanič & Kalkman & Subramanian
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Odonata
Family
Libellulidae
Genus
Orthetrum
Species
andamanicum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Orthetrum andamanicum Bedjanič, Kalkman & Subramanian, 2020