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Lestes minutus Selys 1862

  • 1. Private researcher, Rua Anibal, 216, d. Coleginho, Vila Zezé, Jacareí, CEP (ZIP) 12310 - 780, ão Paulo, Brazil.
  • 2. Instituto de Criminalística, Departamento de Polícia Técnico-Científica, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
  • 3. Universidade Federal do Norte do Tocantins, Laboratório de Coleções Biológicas e Paleontológicas, Biologia, Avenida Paraguai (esq. Uxiramas), Bairro Cimba, Araguaína, Tocantins, CEP 77824 -- 838, Brazil.
  • 4. Laboratório de Ensino de Zoologia, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias e Biológicas, CEUNES, UFES, BR 101 Norte, Km 60, Bairro Litorâneo, São Mateus, CEP 29932 - 540, Espírito Santo, Brazil.
  • 5. Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Rua Augusto Correia, No 1 Bairro Guamá, Belém, Pará- - CEP 66.075 - 110, Brazil.
  • 6. Entomology Laboratory of Nova Xavantina, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil. joanadarcb @ yahoo. com. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3734 - 6844
  • 7. Private researcher. Rua Jaime Bilharinho, 575, Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Description

Lestes minutus Selys, 1862

Fig. 08 (♂ —App), Fig. 21 (♂ —habitus), Fig. 29 (♀ —habitus), Fig. 37 (C— ♀ S8–S10), Fig. 39 (C— ♀ basal plate), Fig. 40 (H— ♀ pectoral color pattern).

Etymology: minutus = Latin for minute, tiny.

Lestes minuta Selys, 1862: 305 (description of male, distribution); Kirby 1890: 161 (data on species description and distribution); Davies & Tobin 1984: 32 (data on publication and distribution); De Marmels 1990: 336 (presence in Venezuela as L. mediorufus Calvert, 1909); Bridges, 1994: (VII) 155 (data on publication, type depository, type locality and references); Lencioni 2005: 96, Fig. 55 (A–C) (data on description, data on type locality, data on type deposition, data on distribution, data on larval description, synonymy with L. mediorufus, illustrations of appendages in lateral and mediodorsal views, thorax in ventral view form Calvert 1909); Costa et al. 2006: 60–61, Fig. 26 (appendages dorsal view, key for adult males); Garrison et al. 2010: 117 (data on species); Lencioni 2017: 109–110, Fig. 44A–E, 45A–B (data on description, type locality, type deposition, distribution, and larval description, appendages in lateral, mediodorsal and dorsal views, female S 8–10 in lateral view, thorax in ventral view, male and female habitus).

Types. Syntypes in IRSNB (examined).

Larva described. No.

Material examined. (2 ♂♂ + 1 ♀): 1 ♀ Brazil: São Paulo, São Paulo, Av Itacira, 42, 06.i.2001, F.A.A. Lencioni leg.; 1 ♂ Venezuela: Edo Bolivar, small stream and ponds, 7 km E of Parupa (PN Canaima), 1200m, 1–3.viii.1987, T. W. Donnelly leg.; 1 ♂ Brazil: Goiás, Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros, 23.vi.2008, S.L. Dutra & M.C. Almeida leg.

Synonyms. Lestes mediorufus Calvert, 1909 (Lencioni 2005).

Distribution. Brazil (Roraima, Goiás, Mato Grosso, São Paulo), Venezuela and Trinidad.

Diagnostic characters. ♂ —Cercus in lateral view: basal 2/3 straight with the apical 1/3 forming an almost right angle, tip rounded, medial expansion visible, rectangular, with the apical edge of the bottom margin with a long spine. Cercus in mediodorsal view: base of cercus with a short distally–directed spine, medial expansion a little wider than the base with the mesal edge concave and covered with spine–like setae. Paraproct in lateral view: 4/5 the length of cercus, finger–like with the tip little expanded and covered with pale setae. Paraproct in dorsal view: finger–like with a spoon–like tip.

♀ —Basal plate: species belonging to basal plate group 3 (Fig. 38), with dorsal side twice the length of the dorsal section of posterior side. Dorsal section of posterior side and posterior section of ventral side subequal (Fig. 39C). Pectoral color pattern as Fig. 40H.

Notes

Published as part of Lencioni, F. A. A., Neiss, U. G., Dutra, S. L., Furieri, K. S., Juen, L., Batista, J. D. & Vilela, Diogo S., 2021, Synopsis of Lestes from Brazil with description of Lestes demarcoi sp. nov (Zygoptera: Lestidae), pp. 511-541 in Zootaxa 4990 (3) on pages 519-520, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4990.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5027008

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References

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