Mecistogaster linearis
Description
Mecistogaster linearis (Fabricius, 1776)
Selys (1860: 16, 1886: 23); Kirby (1890: 150); Kennedy (1919: 112); Fraser (1946: 462); Calvert (1948: 55); Davies & Tobin (1984: 54); Tsuda (1991: 57); Hedström & Sahlén (2001: 1045); Lencioni (2017: 177); Heckman (2008: 210); Garrison et al. (2010: 391); Ingley et al. (2012: 643); Dijkstra et al. (2014: 76); De Marmels (2016: 8).
Mecistogaster fililigera Rambur, 1842 Syn.
Mecistogaster flavistigma Rambur, 1842 Syn.
Diagnosis. Very large species (♁ HW 49-60, abdomen 100-125). Color black, ventrally pale yellow. Face dark brown. Pterothorax with two humeral yellow stripes originating on opposite sides, the anterior reaching the anterior border but not the sinus, the posterior reaching the sinus but not the anterior border. Venter surrounded by black with a median black stripe. Hindwing with anterior border not angulated at level of pseudostigma. Pseudostigma in mature specimen black, extending to the cell row below it. S10 slightly elevated and excavated. Cercus in dorsal view spatulated, in lateral view straight.
Remarks. The diagnosis above was based in Selys (1860, 1886) according to whom the male specimens agree with the specimen in the collection of Banks in the British Museum, believed to be labeled by Fabricius. According to Calvert (1948) this male is the lectotype of M. linearis. Also, Bridges (1994) regards this specimen as the type of Fabricius M. linearis. However, M. linearis is not mentioned in the list of type specimens of the British Museum published by Kimmins (1970).
Mecistogaster linearis has a very large distribution that according to Tsuda (1991) comprises Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. In Brazil it comprises Amazonian States, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The record in São Paulo (Jacareí) was obtained by Lencioni (2017) and the record for Rio de Janeiro was obtained by Janira Costa (in litt) and both are represented in the map (Fig. 2).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pseudostigmatidae
- Genus
- Mecistogaster
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Odonata
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabricius
- Species
- linearis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mecistogaster linearis (Fabricius, 1776) sec. Lacerda & Machado, 2019
References
- Selys, M. E. (1860) Synopsis des agrionines, Premiere Legion: Pseudostigma. Bulletins de l'Academie Royale, Belgique, 2 (10), 9 - 27.
- Selys, M. E. (1886) Revision der Synopsis des agrionines. Premiere partie Comprenar les legion: Pseudostigma, Podagrion, Platycnemis et Protoneura. Memmoire Couronnes et memoire pp l'Academie des sciences des letters et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 38 (4), 1 - 233.
- Kirby, W. F. (1890) A synonymic catalogue of Neuroptera Odonata, or dragonflies: with an appendix of fossil species. Gurney & Jackson, London, 202 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 5534
- Kennedy, C. H. (1919) The phylogeny of the Zygoptera. Unpublished Ph. D. thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 293 pp., 67 pls.
- Fraser, F. C. (1946) Notes on Amazonian Odonata in the Leeds Museum. Part II. Transaction Royal Entomology Society London, 97, 443 - 472. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1946. tb 00272. x
- Calvert, P. P. (1948) Odonata (dragonflies) of Kartabo, Bartica District, British Guiana. Zoologica. Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society, 33 (2), 47 - 87.
- Davies, D. A. L. & Tobin, P. (1984) The dragonflies of the world: a systematic list of the extant species of Odonata. 1 - Zygoptera and Anisozygoptera. Societas Internationalis Odonatologica, Utrecht, 127 pp.
- Tsuda, S. (1991) A distributional List of World Odonata. Published by author, Osaka, 430 pp.
- Hedstrom, I. & Sahlen, G. (2001) A key to the adult Costa Rican " helicopter " damselflies (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae) with notes on their phenology and life zone preferences. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 49, 1037 - 1056.
- Lencioni, F. A. A. (2017) Damselflies of Brazil: An illustrated identification guide: southeast region. Author's edition, Sao Paulo, 544 pp.
- Heckman, C. W. (2008) Encyclopedia of South American aquatic insects: Odonata-Zygoptera. Springer, Heidelberg, 687 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 1 - 4020 - 8176 - 7
- Garrison, R. W., von Ellenrieder, N. & Louton, J. A. (2010) Damselfly Genera of the New World. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 490 pp.
- Ingley, S. J., Bybee, S. M., Tennessen, K. J., Whiting, F. & Branham, M. A. (2012) Life on the fly: phylogenetics and evolution of the helicopter damselflies (Odonata, Pseudostigmatidae). Zoologica Scripta. The Norwegiam Academy of Science and Letters, 41 (6), 637 - 650. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.2012.00555. x
- Dijkstra, K. D. B., Kalkman, V. J., Dow, R. A., Stokvis, F. R. & van Tol, J. (2014) Redefining the damselfly families: a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Zygoptera (Odonata). Systematic Entomology, 39 (1), 68 - 96. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / syen. 12035
- De Marmels, J. (2016) Checklist of the Odonata of Venezuela. MIZA-UCV, 1 - 20.
- Bridges, C. A. (1994) Catalogue of the family-group, genus-group and species-group names of the Odonata of the world (Third Edition). Privately published, Urbana, Illinois, 995 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 15291
- Kimmins, D. E. (1970) A list of the type specimens of Odonata in the British Museum (Natural History) - Part 3. Bulletin of the British Museum Natural History, Entomology, 24, 173 - 205. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 1521