Heteragrion cyane Machado & Souza, 2014

Vilela, Diogo Silva, Lencioni, Frederico A. A., Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A., Ware, Jessica L. & Bispo, Pitágoras C., 2023, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Heteragrion Selys, 1862 (Zygoptera: Heteragrionidae): male morphology, new species and illustrated key, Zootaxa 5356 (1), pp. 1-96 : 43-44

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5356.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10008294

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Heteragrion cyane Machado & Souza, 2014
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Heteragrion cyane Machado & Souza, 2014

( Figs. 28a–d View FIGURE 28 )

[Key locator: Key to Group A species, couplet 10 (9)]

Heteragrion obsoletum: Souza et al. 2013: 1369 View in CoL (misidentification; mention of specimen in checklist as H. obsoletum View in CoL ).

Heteragrion cyane: Machado & Souza 2014: 95–99 (description and diagnosis of ♁; discussion on species with blue coloration; figs. 1–6);— Lencioni 2017: 139–140 (general taxonomic information; distribution; fig. 65);— Vilela et al. 2019b: 591–593 (comparison with H. denisye and original description of H. obsoletum View in CoL ; figs. 4f–h);— Cezário & Guillermo-Ferreira 2021: 78–86 (comparison with Heteragrion View in CoL “blue species”).

Material examined. 1♁ (HOLOTYPE) BRAZIL, Minas Gerais state, Barroso, Mata do Baú , 27.iii.2010, (- 21.1869, -43.9761, centroid), M.M. Souza leg., ABMM GoogleMaps .

Known distribution. Brazil (Southern Minas Gerais state).

Diagnosis and remarks. Heteragrion cyane is one of the “blue species” of Group A, along with H. denisye and H. gorbi . This species is poorly known, being described from a single male ( Machado & Souza 2014), with very few specimens found after its description (Walter Ávila pers. comm.). For this reason and for inhabiting an area threatened with deforestation, its conservation status has been assessed as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List ( Cano-Cobos & Lozano 2021). The following character combination distinguishes this species from the remainder of Group A species: overall body coloration consisting of shades of blue and green, with black background ( Figs. 28a–b View FIGURE 28 ); ML ridge not reaching its apex ( Fig. 28c View FIGURE 28 ); ML apex rounded ( Figs. 28c–d View FIGURE 28 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Odonata

Family

Megapodagrionidae

Genus

Heteragrion

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Heteragrion cyane Machado & Souza, 2014

Vilela, Diogo Silva, Lencioni, Frederico A. A., Bota-Sierra, Cornelio A., Ware, Jessica L. & Bispo, Pitágoras C. 2023
2023
Loc

Heteragrion cyane: Machado & Souza 2014: 95–99

Cezario, R. R. & Guillermo-Ferreira, R. 2021: 78
Vilela, D. S. & Koroiva, R. & Guillermo-Ferreira, R. 2019: 591
Lencioni, F. A. A. 2017: 139
Machado, A. B. M. & de Souza, M. M. 2014: 99
2014
Loc

Heteragrion obsoletum: Souza et al. 2013: 1369

Souza, M. & Pereira, M. & Souza, B. & Machado, A. 2013: 1369
2013
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