Epipleoneura janirae Machado, 2005

Pessacq, Pablo, 2014, Synopsis of Epipleoneura (Zygoptera, Coenagrionidae, “ Protoneuridae ”), with emphasis on its Brazilian species, Zootaxa 3872 (3), pp. 201-234 : 217

Epipleoneura janirae Machado, 2005

( Figs. 14 , 37 , 65 )

Epipleoneura janirae Machado 2005: 47 –48, Figs. 1–2 (new species, male and female description, illustrations of male S 10 in lateral and posterior view and female prothorax in dorsal view, type material at ABMM). Garrison et al. 2010: 352, 354 (included in list of species, illustrations of epiproct in posterior view). Pessacq et al. 2012: 4 (included in list of Brazilian Protoneuridae ).

Specimens examined. 2 ♂, 1 ♀. Holotype male, Brazil, Pará State, Santarém, Belterra (Porto Novo) (Santarém: 03º08’41”S, 55º02’42”W), leg. A.B.M. Machado & P. Pereira, ii 1957. Allotype ♀ and 1 paratype ♂, same data as holotype. ABMM.

Diagnosis. Male cercus resembles that of E. capilliformis . The cercus has a well-developed inner-basal tooth. The epiproct consists of two long narrow branches, tapering toward apex and fused along almost their entire length with only their tips free, thus resembling that of E. uncinata De Marmels, 1989 , but in E. janirae there is a triangular swollen structure between branches base and the apex is comparatively thicker. Epipleoneura janirae further differs from that species by the different genital ligula morphology ( Fig. 37 ); E. janirae is similar to that described for E. humeralis . Female posterior margin of pronotum ( Fig. 65 ) is composed of a wide erected lobe with a medial very shallow V depression.

Distribution. Pará State, northern Brazil (type locality Santarém, Belterra [02 º 38’14” S, 54 º 09’96” W]).

Figures

FIGURES 13 – 15. Male caudal appendages, a: lateral view; b: posterior view, c: latero-posterior view. CIB: cercus inner-basal branch. CT: cercus inner-basal tooth.

FIGURES 28 – 47. Genital ligula, lateral and ectal view. Figures 29, 33, 47 modified from Garrison et al. (2010). PLP: posterolateral projection.

FIGURES 53 – 66. Female pronotum in lateral, dorsal, antero-lateral, anterior postero-lateral and posterior view. Figures 57, 64 and 65 modified from Garrison et al. (2010), Rácenis (1960) and Machado (2005) respectively.

FIGURES 1 – 3. Male caudal appendages, a: lateral view; b: posterior view, c: latero-posterior view. AH: apical hook. DB: cercus dorsal branch. VB: cercus ventral branch. CIB: cercus inner-basal branch. CT: cercus inner-basal tooth. TS: triangular swollen structure.