Analysis of male Leptagrion Selys, 1876 sensu lato (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) with description of four new genera and a new species
Lencioni, F. A. A.
Zootaxa
2022
2022-03-02
5105
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63
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9X5K9
Lencioni, 2022
Lencioni
2022
[151,303,1433,1460]
Insecta
Coenagrionidae
Fredyagrion
Animalia
Odonata
10
73
Arthropoda
genus
gen. nov.
Figs. B, 16–46.
Typespecies. Leptagrion lencioninetoiLencioni, 2017, by present designation.
Etymology: From Fredy,short form of Frederico in honor to Frederico Augusto Rodrigues Lencioni (b. 2007), my beloved son + agrion, neuter form of agrios (ἄγριος) meaning “wild”, which in damselflies is now used as an indicator that the genus belongs to the Coenagrionidae ( Fliedner 2006).
Generic characterization.Medium sized Coenagrionidae( 35.9–53 mm), pale postocular spots and pale occipital bar absent, rear of the head black, cerci longer than S10, basal section “C”-shaped with dorsal border enlarged, apical extremity dorso-ventrally flattened, with a subterminal tooth (STT) curved medially or slightly cephalad, and possessing or a terminal apical tooth (TAT), which can have blunt or acute apexes (in F. lencioninetoiand F. siqueiraiSTT and TATare fused), paraproctus vestigial (plate-like) and penes of all species are virtually identical with S1 highly modified forming a robust heavily chitinized stem, S3 with a pair of blade-like distal tips ( Fig. A5) and a medial swelling heavily chitinized.
Distribution. From Venezuelato Argentina.
Species: