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Issue: Vol. 5219 No. 6: 14 Dec. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.6.4
Page range: 576-582
Abstract views: 207
PDF downloaded: 43

Perilestes jueni (Zygoptera: Perilestidae), new species from Amazonas State, Northern Brazil

Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia - PPGZOOL, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil. 2Laboratorio de Ecología e Conservação - LABECO, Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Rua Augusto Correia, No. 1 Bairro Guamá, CEP 66.075-110 Belém, Pará, Brazil.
2Laboratorio de Ecología e Conservação - LABECO, Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Rua Augusto Correia, No. 1 Bairro Guamá, CEP 66.075-110 Belém, Pará, Brazil.
3Laboratório de Biologia Aquática, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Assis, São Paulo, Brazil.
Zygoptera Amazon Rainforest Neotropical damselfly

Abstract

Perilestes jueni sp. nov. (Brazil, Amazonas State, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Ponto 8 (0.165, -67.007, 92 m asl), 2.xii.2021, C.C. Mendoza-Penagos M. Silva-Gonçalves & S. Da Silva Ribeiro leg.) is described based on one male collected in a remote area of the Brazilian Amazon Forest. The new species is separated from congeners based on cercus morphology.

 

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