Revalidation of Platystigma Kennedy, 1920, with a synopsis of the quadratum species group and the description of three new species (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae)
Machado, Angelo B. M.
Soldati Lacerda, Déborah S.
Zootaxa
2017
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Magnoliopsida
Papaveraceae
Platystigma
Animalia
Ranunculales
4
497
Tracheophyta
genus
1 Hw with black or dark brown band. Species known only from Colombia, Peru and Venezuela............... jocastegroup - Hw without black or dark brown band. Species of Northern and Southeastern Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru ( Figs. 27, 35)................................................................................... quadratumgroup... 2 2 Posterior prothoracic lobe with lateral and median portions clearly separated by deep incision ( Fig. 12).......... P. pronoti - Posterior prothoracic lobe with lateral and median portions not clearly separated ( Fig. 9)........................... 3 3 Ventral border of lateral valve of ovipositor with a row of well-developed teeth increasing in size distad ( Fig. 65)..... P. sp. - Ventral border of lateral valve of ovipositor with a row of very small denticles of equal sizes.......................... 4 4 Row of denticles originating directly from ventral border of lateral valve of ovipositor ( Fig. 63)............... P. astictum - Row of denticles originating from small, narrow, sclerotized plate on ventral border of lateral valve of ovipositor ( Fig. 64).............................................................................................. P. martinezi