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Lestes paulistus Calvert 1909

  • 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 paulistus Calvert, 1909

Fig. 09 (♂ —App), Fig. 22 (♂ —habitus), Fig. 30 (♀ —habitus), Fig. 37 (D— ♀ S8–S10), Fig. 39 (D— ♀ basal plate), Fig. 40 (I— ♀ pectoral color pattern), Fig. 44 (♂ —live photo).

Etymology: paulistus = in reference to the State of São Paulo.

Lestes paulistus Calvert, 1909: 99, Figs. 14, 25–26 (description of male, illustration of male thorax in ventral view, appendages in lateral and mediodorsal views); Jurzitza 1981: 117 (occurrence in Argentina); Davies & Tobin 1984: 33 (data on publication and distribution); Bridges 1994: (VII) 181 (data on publication, type depository, type locality and references); Muzón 1997: 02, Figs.: 13–18 (description of female, color pattern of: head in dorsal view, thorax in lateral and ventral views of male and female); Lencioni 2005: 97, Fig. 56(A–C) (data on description, data on type locality, data on type deposition, data on distribution, data on larval description, illustration of appendages in lateral and dorsal views, thorax in ventral view from Calvert 1909); Costa et al. 2006: 60–61, Fig. 29 (pterothorax color pattern in ventral view, key for adult males); Garrison et al. 2010: 117 (data on species); Lencioni 2017: 111–112, Fig. 46A–E, 47A–D, DL-03 (data on description, type locality, type deposition, distribution, and larval description, appendages in lateral, mediodorsal and dorsal views, female S8-S 10 in lateral view, thorax in ventral view, male and female habitus, male and female thorax in lateral view, live photo).

Types. Syntypes in ANS (not examined).

Larva described. No.

Material examined. (40 ♂♂ + 6 ♀♀): 3 ♂, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Rio Abaixo, 18.i.1996, F.A.A. Lencioni leg.; 3 ♂♂, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Rio Abaixo, 10.xi.1996, F.A.A. Len- cioni leg.; 1 ♂, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Poço, 08.xii.1998, F. Lencioni leg.; 1 ♂ + 1 ♀, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Rio Abaixo, 29.viii.1999, (in tandem), F.A.A. Lencioni & F. Lencioni leg.; 1 ♂, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Rio Abaixo, 29.viii.1999, F.A.A. Lencioni & F. Lencioni leg.; 2 ♂♂, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Rio Abaixo, 01.ix.1999, F.A.A. Lencioni leg.; 1 ♂, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Rio Abaixo, 27.xi.1999, F.A.A. Lencioni leg.; 1 ♂, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Rio Abaixo, 26.viii.2000, F.A.A. Lencioni leg.; 1 ♂ + 1 ♀, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Rio Abaixo, 26.viii.2000, (in tandem), F.A.A. Lencioni leg.; 1 ♂, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Rio Abaixo, 02.xi.2000, F.A.A. Lencioni leg.; 2 ♂♂ + 2 ♀♀, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda San- tana do Rio Abaixo, 23.xii.2000, F. Lencioni leg.; 1 ♂, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Rio Abaixo, 04.iii.2001, F. Lencioni leg.; 6 ♂, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Rio Abaixo, 23º14’ 55” S & 46º00’ 27” W, 569 m, 01.ix.2001, F.A.A. Lencioni leg.; 3 ♂♂, Brazil: São Paulo, Luiz Antônio, Represa Vassununga, 07.ix.2001, F.A.A. Lencioni leg.; 3 ♂♂, Brazil: São Paulo, Luiz Antônio, Represa Beija Flor, 08.ix.2001, F.A.A. Lencioni leg.; 1 ♂, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Rio Abaixo, 20.x.2001, F. Lencioni leg.; 6 ♂♂ + 1 ♀, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Rio Abaixo, 12.x.2002, F.A.A. Lencioni leg.; 3 ♂♂ + 1 ♀, Brazil: São Paulo, Jacareí, Fazenda Santana do Rio Abaixo, 26.xii.2002, F. Lencioni leg.

Distribution. Brazil (São Paulo, Mato Grosso), Uruguay and Argentina (Misiones).

Diagnostic characters. ♂ —Cercus in lateral view: basal 3/4 straight with a ventral triangular expansion a little before its half which partially covers the medial expansion, apical 1/4 forming an obtuse angle, the tip of cercus rounded. 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 slightly convex, and the apical half–covered with spinules. Paraproct in lateral view: more than half the length of cercus, narrow. Paraproct in dorsal view: narrow with a rounded tip.

♀ —Basal plate: species belonging to basal plate group 2 (Fig. 38), with dorsal side more than twice the length of ventral side. Dorsal side with anterior 1/2 slight convex and posterior 1/2 concave, the junction of the dorsal and posterior side forming an acute process directed slight upward, posterior side little longer than ventral side (Fig. 39D). Pectoral color pattern as Fig. 40I.

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 520-521, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4990.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5027008

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References

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