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Issue: Vol. 4103 No. 4: 14 Apr. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-04-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.4.7
Page range: 390–395
Abstract views: 54
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Telosticta fugispinosa sp. nov. from Sabah (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platystictidae) 

Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Odonata Zygoptera Platystictidae Telosticta fugispinosa Borneo Sabah Mount Kinabalu Crocker Range new species

Abstract

Telosticta fugispinosa sp. nov. (holotype male, from Borneo, Sabah, West Coast division, Crocker Range National Park, Inobong, Kimamabang waterfall stream system, 21 ix 2012, deposited in RMNH) is described from Kinabalu National Park and Crocker Range National Park in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. It is distinguished from all other species of Telosticta by the form of the male anal appendages.

 

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