Desmogomphus Williamson, 1920

Mauffray, William F. & Tennessen, Kenneth J., 2019, A Catalogue and Historical Study of the Odonata of Ecuador, Zootaxa 4628 (1), pp. 1-265 : 133

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scientific name

Desmogomphus Williamson, 1920
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Only three species of Desmogomphus have been described, one of which was reported from a small sandy, gravel, clear-water stream ( Fig. 72 View FIGURE 72 ). Descriptions can be found in Williamson (1920) and Belle (1970, 1972).

Desmogomphus paucinervis (Selys, 1873) . Publ. Recs. ECU: Tsuda (1986), Steinmann (1997b); PC: *Selys (1873b—Type locality, “Quito”), Hagen (1875), Campos (1922 —“from Kirby”). Publ. Recs. ECU: (H14). Also CEN, COL (P16).

Addl. Data. ES, Quininde: Nymphs collected at Río Canande Reserve, 35 km NE of Quininde, tributary of Río Hoja Blanca, swampy trickle in forest (0.5264, -79.2122, 345m), date not provided, data provided by WAH & DLW.

Belle, J. (1970) Studies on South American Gomphidae (Odonata) with special reference to the species from Surinam. Studies of the Fauna of Suriname and other Guyanas, 11 (43), 1 - 158.

Belle, J. (1972) Further studies on South American Gomphidae (Odonata). Tijdschrift voor entomologie, 115 (5), 217 - 240.

Campos, F. (1922) Catalogo Sistematico y Sinonimico de los Odonatos del Ecuador. Revista del Colegio Nacional Vicente Rocafuerte, 8 - 9, 1 - 75.

Steinmann, H. (1997 b) World Catalogue of Odonata. Vol. II. Anisoptera. In: Wermuth, H. & Fischer, M. (Eds.), Das Tierreich. Vol. 111. The Animal Kingdom. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 1 - 636.

Tsuda, S. (1986) A distributional list of world Odonata, Preliminary edition. Published by author, Osaka, 246 pp.

Williamson, E. B. (1920) A new Gomphine genus from British Guiana with a note on the classification of the subfamily (order Odonata). Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 80, 1 - 11.

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FIGURE 72. Desmogomphus paucinervis ♂, COSTA RICA, Provincia Guanacaste, 6 km E of Las Juntas, Río San Juan, flying around treelet in middle of light gap 20 m from river, 10 vi 2008; photo W. A. Haber.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Odonata

Family

Gomphidae