Wahnesia muyuw, Polhemus & Kalkman, 2021

Polhemus, Dan A. & Kalkman, Vincent J., 2021, Four new species of Wahnesia Förster, 1900 from the D’Entrecasteaux, Louisiade and Woodlark island groups, Papua New Guinea (Odonata: Argiolestidae), Zootaxa 5004 (3), pp. 447-464 : 450

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5004.3.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:92395444-B82C-46C2-A1B7-A77AD40E65DC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5120750

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/790F878F-FFAE-FFD1-1D9C-FDC60F85DA5E

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scientific name

Wahnesia muyuw
status

sp. nov.

Wahnesia muyuw spec. nov.

( Figs 1–5 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURES 4–7 , 9 View FIGURES 9–12 )

Holotype: ♂ PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Milne Bay Prov., Woodlark Island, Suloga Peninsula, stream entering W. side of Suloga Harbor , headwater reach, 180 m. a.s.l., 9°12’22”S, 152°42’29”E (-9.206000, 152.708111), water temp. 27°C., 07:30–15:30 hrs., 24.I.2003, CL 7217, D.A. Polhemus ( BPBM). GoogleMaps

Paratypes: 6 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, same data as holotype ( USNM, BPBM) GoogleMaps .

Additional material examined (not paratypes): PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Milne Bay Prov., Woodlark Island : 1 ♂, Kulumadau , [vic. -9.082901, 152.721723], 3.XI.1956, leg. 5th Archbold Expedition ( RMNH) [the locality on envelope reads: “ Woodlark I., Camp 15,” with additional locality details taken from Brass (1959)] GoogleMaps ; 3 ♂♂, 13– 19.XI.1956, idem GoogleMaps ; 3 ♂♂, 17.XI.1956, idem GoogleMaps ; 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, 19.XI.1956, idem GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀, 25.II.1957, leg. W. W. Brandt; 1 ♂ teneral, 10.II.1957, idem GoogleMaps ; 1 ♂, 20.III.1957, idem GoogleMaps ; 2 ♀♀, 8.III.1957, idem GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀ Woodlark Island (Murua) Kulumadau Hill , 23–30.III.1957, leg. W. W. Brandt (all RMNH) .

Etymology. The name “muyuw” is a noun in apposition, and refers to the native Melanesian name for Woodlark Island.

BPBM

Bishop Museum

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Odonata

Family

Argiolestidae

Genus

Wahnesia

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