Lestes fernandoi Costa, Souza & Muzón, 2006

Lencioni, F. A. A., Neiss, U. G., Dutra, S. L., Furieri, K. S., Juen, L., Batista, J. D. & Vilela, Diogo S., 2021, Synopsis of Lestes from Brazil with description of Lestes demarcoi sp. nov (Zygoptera: Lestidae), Zootaxa 4990 (3), pp. 511-541 : 516-517

Lestes fernandoi Costa, Souza & Muzón, 2006

Fig. 05 (♂ —App), Fig. 40 (E— ♂ pectoral color pattern).

Etymology: fernandoi , named after Luiz Fernando Netto dos Reys, collector of the type series.

Lestes fernandoi Costa, Souza & Muzón, 2006: 58 , Figs.: 13–20, 36 (key to the Brazilian species, description of male and female, original illustration of color pattern of male thorax in lateral and ventral views, penis in ectal and lateral views, appendages in lateral, dorsal and ventral views, female S 8–10 in lateral views); Garrison et al. 2010: 117 (data on species).

Types. Holotype & Allotype in MNRJ (not examined—destroyed by fire in 2.ix.2018) .

Larva described. No.

Distribution. Brazil (Maranhão).

Diagnostic characters. ♂ —Cercus in lateral view: straight and with almost uniform width, the medial expansion visible in lateral view in the middle of the length of cercus. Cercus in mediodorsal view: base of cercus without spine, medial expansion with small spines at the apical end. Paraproct in lateral view: less than half the size of the cercus, stout and with a tuff of setae directed upwards.

♀ —Basal plate not illustrated in Costa et al. 2006, pectoral color pattern as in Fig. 40E .

Figures

FIGURE 40. Pectoral color pattern: A—Lestes auritus (female), B—Lestes bipupillatus (female), C—Lestes dichrostigma (female), D—Lestes falcifer (male), E—Lestes fernandoi (male), F—Lestes forficula (female), G—Lestes jurzitzai (male), H— Lestes minutus (female), I—Lestes paulistus (female), J—Lestes pictus (female), K—Lestes quadristriatus (male), L—Lestes tricolor (female), M—Lestes undulatus (female), N—Lestes demarcoi sp. nov. (female).