Two new species of Archaeopodagrion (Odonata, Philogeniidae) from the western foothills of the Tropical Andes, with biological observations and distributional records

By

Amaya, Vanessa
Bota Sierra, Cornelio Andrés
Novelo-Gutiérrez, Rodolfo
Sanchez-Herrera, Melissa

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1036

Pages

21--38

Subjects

Biodiversity hotspots , Colombia , Damselfly , Ecuador , female , larva , male

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1036.64230

 

Abstract

Two new species of the damselfly genus Archaeopodagrion, A. recurvatumsp. nov. and A. mayisp. nov., are described from the confluence of the Tropical Andes and the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena biodiversity hotspots. Adults differ from the other known species in the shape of female posterior lobe of pronotum and male structures of cerci and paraprocts; the larva differs from other Archaeopodagrion species in the caudal lamellae structure and in the mandibular formula. The two new species are diagnosed, a morphological key to all known males and females in the genus is provided, and geographical distributions are updated. Finally, observations on habitat preferences for each newly described species are provided.