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Issue: Vol. 5415 No. 2: 21 Feb. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-02-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5415.2.1
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A revision of Lestidae Calvert, 1901 (Odonata: Zygoptera) from Colombia, with the first record of Lestes dichrostigma Calvert, 1909

Laboratório de Ecologia 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
Laboratorio de Zoología y Ecología Acuática—LAZOEA; Departamentos de Ciencias Biológicas; Universidad de los Andes; Bogotá 111711; Colombia; Grupo de Investigación Biodiversidad del Caribe Colombiano; Universidad del Atlántico; Barranquilla; Colombia; Laboratório de Sistemática de Insetos Aquáticos—LABSIA; Universidade Federal do Paraná; Jardim das Américas; Curitiba; Brazil
Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Genética Ambiental—BioGeA; Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda; Piñeyro 1870; Avellaneda; Buenos Aires; Argentina
Odonata Archilestes Lestes damselfly spreadwings neotropical

Abstract

The cosmopolitan family Lestidae Calvert, 1901 has two widely distributed genera in the Americas: Archilestes Selys, 1862, and Lestes Leach, 1815. In Colombia, this family is represented by 11 species. In this study, we present a diagnosis of Lestidae species in Colombia based on a thorough review of the country’s main entomological collections. A total of 258 specimens representing ten species were examined. The species L. dichrostigma Calvert, 1909, is recorded for the first time. The presence of L. henshawi Calvert, 1907 is excluded, and the taxonomic status of L. sternalis (Navás, 1930) is discussed. Finally, we present distribution maps, photographs of Lestidae species, taxonomical important structures, and taxonomic keys for both males and females.

 

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