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Issue: Vol. 2272 No. 1: 23 Oct. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-10-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2272.1.4
Page range: 54–62
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 9

Redescription of Argia concinna (Rambur), with a description of Argia telesfordi spec. nov. from Grenada, West Indies (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae)

Société d’Histoire Naturelle L’Herminier - Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, 12, rue Voltaire, 44000 Nantes, France
Odonata Lesser Antilles Guadeloupe Dominica endemics new species

Abstract

Argia telesfordi sp. nov. a new species close to Argia concinna, is described from Grenada. Both species are illustrated and diagnosed. They can be distinguished by morphology of male tori, cerci and paraproct and female mesostigmal laminae. Their distribution is allopatric, with Argia telesfordi distributed on Grenada and Argia concinna known only from Guadeloupe and Dominica.

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