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Issue: Vol. 3911 No. 2: 19 Jan. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-01-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3911.2.9
Page range: 280–286
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 1

Mitragomphus ganzanus Needham, 1944, a geographically misplaced dragonfly, is a junior synonym of Gomphidia kirschii Selys, 1878 (Odonata: Gomphidae)

Plant Pest Diagnostic Branch, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, United States of America.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Forestal Healing Home and Therapeutic Milieu, Forestal Road, Cabantian, Davao City, 8000, Philippines.
taxonomy Brazil Philippines

Abstract

Based on comparison of specimens and descriptions, Mitragomphus ganzanus Needham, 1944, described from Braganza [Bragança], Pará State, Brazil, and known only from the holotype, is found to be a junior synonym of Gomphidia kirschii Selys, 1878, a species from the Philippines. The monotypic genus Mitragomphus Needham, 1944, is synonymized with the genus Gomphidia Selys, 1854.