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Issue: Vol. 2506 No. 1: 15 Jun. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-06-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2506.1.6
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

Description of the final instar of Macrothemis heteronycha (Calvert) (Anisoptera: Libellulidae)

Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristovão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brazil
Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristovão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brazil Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro BR 465, Km 7, Seropédica – RJ. Brazil 23890-000
Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristovão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brazil
Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristovão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brazil
Odonata Anisoptera Libellulidae

Abstract

The Neotropical genus Macrothemis comprises 40 species described to date (von Ellenrieder, 2007) of which 22 occur in Brazil. The immature stages of this stream-dwelling genus are poorly known (Costa et al., 2004), as larvae of only nine species have been described: M. aurimaculata Donnelly, 1984 (Ramírez & Novelo-Gutiérrez,1999), M. celeno Selys in Sagra, 1857 (Klots, 1932), M. hahneli Ris, 1913 (von Ellenrieder, 2007), M. inacuta Calvert, 1898 (Novelo-Gutiérrez & Ramírez, 1998), M. inequiunguis Calvert, 1895 (Ramírez and Novelo-Gutiérrez,1999), M. meurgeyi Daigle, 2007 (Meurgey, 2009), M. musiva Calvert, 1898 (Santos, 1970), M. pseudimitans Calvert, 1898 (Limongi, 1989) and M. ultima González-Soriano, 1992 (Novelo-Gutiérrez, 2006).

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