Vanuatubasis Ober & Staniczek, 2009

Saxton, Natalie A., Marinov, Milen G. & Bybee, Seth M., 2022, Revision of Vanuatubasis Ober & Staniczek, 2009 (Odonata, Coenagrionidae), with description of seven new species, ZooKeys 1128, pp. 129-169 : 129

Genus Vanuatubasis Ober & Staniczek, 2009

Type species.

Nesobasis malekulana Kimmins, 1936 (by original designation).

Diagnosis

(adapted from Ober & Staniczek, 2009). Vanuatubasis resembles Nesobasis but can be distinguished by the following characters: cerci of males broad and short, always shorter than the paraprocts, paraprocts forceps-like, apically curved inwards (continuously curved medially), each ending with a dark tip; protonal hind lobe raised and medially protruding to obtuse or acute apex, ventral lobe expanding dorsally, and leveling up approximately with the dorsal carina.

Etymology

(feminine). The name of the genus is derived from its distribution within Vanuatu, and the Latin suffix - basis which means base or foundation (see Ober and Staniczek 2009).