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Anisagrion Selys 1876

Description

Anisagrion Selys, 1876

Medium-sized, green and black damselflies with a pale preapical abdominal tip (Fig. 15) that inhabit marsh and seepage areas thick with aquatic plants; the thorax and anterior abdominal segments of immature individuals are mostly orange. For species identification see De Marmels & Garrison (2005); Tennessen (2012b) described the nymph of A. inornatum.

Anisagrion inornatum (Selys, 1876). Publ. Recs. ECU: (H14); LJ: * De Marmels & Garrison (2005), Tennessen & Johnson (2008), Tennessen (2012b nymph description). Also VEN: (H08), (P11); plus COL: Rojas-Riano (2011b), (P16).

Addl. Data. AZ, Santa Isabel: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, stream 21 km E of Hwy. 25, road from Balao jct. (-2.9400, -79.5653, 730m), 11 iv 2008, leg. & det. KJT [FSCA]; 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, same data but leg. & det. JTJ [JTJ]; EO, Piñas: 1 ♂, 15 km E Piñas (-3.6667, -79.65, 876m), 4 vii 1989, leg. R. Miller & L. Stange, det. RWG [RWG]; LJ, Catamayo: 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, trickle, 23 km from Hwy. 50 on road to Zaruma (-3.8917, -79.5511, 1095m), 7 iv 2008, leg. & det. KJT [FSCA]; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, same data but leg. & det. JTJ [JTJ]; 1 ♂, stream about 18 km from Hwy. 50 on road to Zaruma (-3.9092, -79.5912, 1160m), 7 iv 2008, leg. & det. JTJ [JTJ]; 1 ♂, small seep between Catamayo and Zaruma (- 3.9472, -79.3958, 1276m), 6 iv 2008, leg. & det. KJT [KJT]; Loja: 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, Río Chamba at Vilcabamba (-4.2625, -79.2192), 16–17 viii 2006, leg. & det. JCA [UTIC]; 7 ♂♂, 9 ♀♀, seep, trib. Río Chamba, Vilcabamba (-4.2636, -79.2172, 1555m), 30 iii 2008, leg. & det. KJT [FSCA]; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, same data but 31 iii 2008 [FSCA]; 6 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, same data but 30 iii 2008, leg. & det. JTJ [JTJ]; 2 ♂♂, Vilcabamba, Natural Reserve Rumi-Wilco, floodplain trails along Río Chamba (-4.2558, -79.2197, 1530m), 31 iii 2008, leg. & det. JTJ [JTJ]; 1 ♂, Malacatos, 15 mi S, 3 mi W of Loja-(-4.2333, -79.2833, 1500m), 18 viii 1941, leg. D. Laddey, det. RWG, from UMMZ [RWG]; 1 ♀, same data but 23 viii 1941 [RWG]; 5 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, same data but 24 viii 1941 [RWG].

Notes

Published as part of Mauffray, William F. & Tennessen, Kenneth J., 2019, A Catalogue and Historical Study of the Odonata of Ecuador, pp. 1-265 in Zootaxa 4628 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4628.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3335707

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Coenagrionidae
Genus
Anisagrion
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Odonata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Selys
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Anisagrion Selys, 1876 sec. Mauffray & Tennessen, 2019

References

  • Selys Longchamps, E. de (1876) Synopsis des Agrionines, 5 me legion: Agrion (suite). Le genre Agrion. Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux Arts de Belgique, Series 2, 41 & 42, 247 - 322 + 496 - 539 + 1233 - 1309 & 490 - 531 + 952 - 991.
  • De Marmels, J. & Garrison, R. W. (2005) Review of the genus Leptagrion in Venezuela with new synonymies and descriptions of a new genus, Bromeliagrion, and a new species, B. rehni (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae). Canadian Entomologist, 137 (3), 257 - 273. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / n 04 - 096
  • Tennessen, K. J. (2012 b) The nymph of Anisagrion Selys 1876, based on the discovery of A. inornatum (Selys, 1876) in Ecuador (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution, 12, 297 - 300. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 13127 - 012 - 0083 - 5
  • Tennessen, K. J. & Johnson, J. T. (2008) Chasing dragonflies in southern Ecuador. Argia, 20 (2), 9 - 11.
  • Rojas-Riano, N. C. (2011 b) First record of the damselfly genus Anisagrion (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) from Columbia. Revista Colombiana de Entomologica, 37 (1), 164 - 165.