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Orthetrum Newman 1833

Description

Orthetrum Newman, 1833

O. coerulescens anceps (Schneider, 1845) S-Europe, SW-Asia, N-Africa; unpublished localities: 1, 4, 27, 34, 37, 40–41, 48–50, 53, 59–60, 62, 65, 68, 79–80, 90, 107, 110–113, 115, 127, 135, 141–142, 147, 155, 159, 161, 163, 171; literature: Ris (1928), Martin (1912), Ris in Bodemeyer (1930), Kimmins (1950), Schmidt (1954), Dumont & Heidari (1996), Ebrahimi et al. (2009), Bakhshi & Sadeghi (2014), Ebrahimi et al. (2014), Eslami et al. (2015), Schneider & Dumont (2015), Ikemeyer et al. (2015), Schneider & Ikemeyer (2016a, 2016b, 2017).

O. brunneum (Fonscolombe, 1837) Euro-Siberia, Central-Asia, SW-Asia, N-Africa; unpublished localities: 1, 76c, 101, 104, 106–109, 111–112, 115–121, 127–128, 131– 132, 135–136, 139, 141–142, 147, 153, 155, 163, 180, 195–196, 203, 204; literature: Martin (1912), Bartenev (1912), Morton (1921), Ris in Bodemeyer (1930), Schmidt (1954), Blom (1982), Dumont & Heidari (1996), Ebrahimi et al. (2009), Ebrahimi et al. (2014), Bakhshi & Sadeghi (2014), Eslami et al. (2015), Schneider & Dumont (2015), Ikemeyer et al. (2015), Schneider & Ikemeyer (2016a, 2016b, 2017).

O. a. albistylum (Selys, 1848) Euro-Siberian; unpublished locality: 135; literature: Selys (1887), Martin (1912), Bartenev (1916), Schneider & Ikemeyer (2017)

O. a. speciosum (Uhler, 1858) Oriental; unpublished locality: 77, 98; literature: Schneider & Ikemeyer (2017).

O. cancellatum (Linnaeus, 1758) Euro-Siberia, Central-Asia, SW-Asia, N-Africa; unpublished localities: 80, 86, 93, 101, 105, 121–122, 124, 135, 155; literature: Martin (1912), Morton (1920), Schmidt (1954), Eslami et al. (2015), Schneider & Dumont (2015), Schneider & Ikemeyer (2016a, 2016b, 2017).

O. chrysostigma (Burmeister, 1839) Tropical-Africa, S-Europe, SW-Asia; unpublished localities: 4, 32, 72–73, 76a; literature: Dumont & Heidari (1996), Bakhshi & Sadeghi (2014), Ebrahimi et al. (2014), Schneider & Dumont (2015).

O. luzonicum (Brauer, 1868) Oriental; unpublished localities: 27, 29; literature: Dumont & Heidari (1996).

O. ransonnetii (Brauer, 1865) SW-Asia, N-Africa; unpublished locality: 4; literature: Selys (1887), Martin (1912), Bartenev (1915), Dumont & Heidari (1996), Ebrahimi et al. (2009), Ebrahimi et al. (2014).

O. sabina (Drury, 1773) Oriental, N-Africa, NE-Africa, Central-Asia, SW Asia, SE-Europe; unpublished localities: 8–10, 13, 15–16, 21, 24, 26–30, 34–50, 53, 55–58, 62–63, 74–75, 77, 80–83, 86, 95, 98, 105, 111, 149, 167– 168, 171–172, 176–178, 181–184, 203, 205; literature: Martin (1912), Bartenev (1916), Morton (1920), Ris in Bodemeyer (1930), Schmidt (1954), Blom (1982), Dumont & Heidari (1996), Ebrahimi et al. (2009), Ghahari et al. (2012), Ebrahimi et al. (2014), Bakhshi & Sadeghi (2014), Eslami et al. (2015), Schneider & Dumont (2015), Ikemeyer et al. (2015), Schneider & Ikemeyer (2016a, 2016b).

O. taeniolatum (Schneider, 1845) Oriental, SW-Asia, SE-Europe; unpublished localities: 1–2, 4, 6–10, 27, 39–40, 110–112, 118, 154, 157–158; literature: Martin (1912), Schmidt (1954), Blom (1982), Dumont & Heidari (1996), Ebrahimi et al. (2009), Ebrahimi et al. (2014), Bakhshi & Sadeghi (2014), Schneider & Dumont (2015), Ikemeyer et al. (2015), Schneider & Ikemeyer (2016a, 2016b).

O. trinacria (Selys, 1841) Africa, S-Europe, Middle East; literature: Dumont & Heidari (1996).

Notes

Published as part of Schneider, Thomas, Ikemeyer, Dietmar, Müller, Ole & Dumont, Henri J., 2018, Checklist of the dragonflies (Odonata) of Iran with new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 4394 (1) on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1196880

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Newman
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Odonata
Family
Libellulidae
Genus
Orthetrum
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Orthetrum Newman, 1833 sec. Schneider, Ikemeyer, Müller & Dumont, 2018

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