Brachymesia Kirby, 1889

Mauffray, William F. & Tennessen, Kenneth J., 2019, A Catalogue and Historical Study of the Odonata of Ecuador, Zootaxa 4628 (1), pp. 1-265 : 148-149

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Brachymesia Kirby, 1889
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Brachymesia Kirby, 1889

Two of the three species in this genus are recorded for Ecuador. Species are variable in color pattern, being either brown and black or mostly red ( Fig. 86 View FIGURE 86 ). See Needham et al. (2014) for species identification. Habitat consists of various ponds and swamps, even brackish water, usually vegetated.

Brachymesia furcata ( Hagen, 1861) . Publ. Recs. ECU: (H06), (P11), (H14); SU: * Dunkle (1981). Also ARG, BOL, BRA, CEN, CHL, GUF, PRY, PER, SUR, TTO, VEN: (H06, P11); plus COL: (H06, P&P).

Addl. Data. EO, Arenillas: 1 ♂, farm pond, seeps, 11 km S of Arenillas, on road to Alamar (-3.6436, -80.0989, 95m), 10 iv 2008, leg. & det. JTJ [JTJ]; Machala: borrow pit pond, Hwy. 25, S of Machala (-3.4750, -79.9778), 10 iv 2008, leg. & det. KJT [KJT]; SE, Salinas: 1 ♂, Salinas (-2.95, -80.13, 3m), 30 vi 1989, leg. L. Stange & R. Miller, det. GHB [FSCA]; SU, Shushufindi: 10 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, Limoncocha, Río Napo (-0.4000, -76.6167, 269m), 13–28 xi 1973, leg. B. Drummond III, det.? [ FSCA, KJT]; 2 ♂♂, same data but 11–17 i 1974 [ FSCA]; 45 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, same data but 1–27 xi 1980, leg. & det. MJW [ FSCA]; 2 ♂♂, same data but 23 viii 1980, leg. & det. SWD [ UTIC]; 5 ♂♂, same data but 3–16 vi 1977, leg. P. Spangler & D. Givens, det. RWG [ RWG, USNM]; 1 ♀, same data but lake edge, 5 vii 1971, leg. D. Pearson, det. DRP [ DRP]; 3 ♂♂, same data but 16–25 viii 1971 [ DRP]; 1 ♂, same data but 2 x 1971 [ DRP]; 2 ♂♂, same data but 11 xii 1971; 1 ♂, same data but 13 i 1972; 1 ♂, same data but 20 ii 1972 [ DRP]; 1 ♀, same data but 6 iii 1972; 13 ♂♂, 1 ♀, same data but 24–26 vii 1977, leg. & det. DRP [ DRP]; 2 ♂♂, same data but forest edge, 25–26 vi 1977, leg. & det. DRP [ DRP] GoogleMaps .

Brachymesia herbida (Gundlach, 1889) . Publ. Recs. ECU: (P11), (H14); CB: Campos (1922 —as Cannacria batesi ); GA: * Currie (1901 —as Holotype C. fumipennis : “ Galapagos Is” [Isabela], Albemarle, 23 iii 1899, leg. R. Snodgrass, USNM], Calvert (1907), Ris (1912), Campos (1922), (P11), ( Peck 1992); NA: Tennessen (1998); SU: Dunkle (1981). Also ARG, BOL, BRA, CEN, COL, GUF, GUY, PRY, PER, TTO, VEN: (H06), (P11); plus SUR: (H06).

Addl. Data. GA. Isabela: 2 ♀♀, Isla Isabela, littoral zone, 2 iii 1989, leg. & det. S. Peck [USNM]; 1 ♂, same data but arid zone, 10 iii 1989 [USNM]; Santa Cruz: 2 ♀♀, Isla Santa Cruz, Tortuga Bay, 30 i 1989, leg. & det. S. Peck, et. al. [USNM]; GY, Guayaquil: 1 ♀, Puna Vieja (-2.97, -80.18, 30m), leg. F. Campos, det. MJW [ ANSP]; LR, Babahoyo : 1 ♀, swamp at Babahoyo, 12 vi 1975, leg. J. Cohen & A. Langley, det.? [ USNM]; Buena Fé: 1 ♂, [Consumulo], S Río Palenque (-0.58, -79.35, 175m), 16 vi 1974, leg. J. Longino, det.? [ FSCA]; OR , Francisco de Orellana : 2 ♂♂, trib. of Río Payamino , road to Loreto, 1.7 km W of jct. w/ Coca Road (-0.4367, -77.0017, 258m), 18 xi 1997, leg. & det. KJT GoogleMaps [ KJT]; 1 ♂, same but leg. & det. WFM [ FSCA]: SU , Shushufindi: 1 ♂, Limoncocha , Río Napo (-0.4000, -76.6167, 269m), 31 x 1980, leg. & det. MJW GoogleMaps [ FSCA]; 1 ♀, same data but 3 xi 1980 [ FSCA]; 1 ♀, same data but lakeshore, 26 vii 1977, leg. DRP GoogleMaps & S. Hills, det. DRP [ DRP]; same data but 22 viii 1980, leg. & det. SWD [ KJT]; 6 ♂♂, 1 ♀, same data but 23 viii 1980 [ JJD, SWD]; 2 ♂♂, La Selva , 100 km E of Coca, Garzaco- cha, 12 x 1988, leg. & det. SWD [ UTIC] .

Calvert, P. P. (1907) Odonata. In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali-Americana-Insecta Neuroptera. R. H. Porter & Dulau Co., London, pp. 309 - 404.

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

Currie, R. P. (1901) Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898 - 1899. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 3, 381 - 389. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 26342

Dunkle, S. W. (1981) Dunkle and Knopf Blitz Ecuador and Colombia. Selysia, 10 (1), 5 - 6.

Hagen, H. A. (1861) Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America, with a list of the South American species. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Washington. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 347 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 60275

Kirby, W. F. (1889) A revision of the subfamily Libellulinae, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 12 (9), 249 - 348. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1889. tb 00016. x

Needham, J. G., Westfall, M. J. Jr. & May, M. L. (2014) Dragonflies of North America III Edition. Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, FL, 658 pp.

Peck, S. (1992) The dragonflies and damselflies of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador (Insecta: Odonata). Psyche, 99 (4), 309 - 321. https: // doi. org / 10.1155 / 1992 / 63105

Ris, F. (1912) Libellulinen. Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps, Catalogue Systematique et Descriptif, Fasc. XIV, Libellulinen 6, 701 - 836.

Tennessen, K. J. (1998) Ecuador IV-we learn some more. Argia, 9 (4), 13 - 15.

Gallery Image

FIGURE 86. Brachymesia furcata United States, Florida, Monroe County, Stock Island, Key West Tropical Botanical Garden, pond, 27 i 2012, photo K. J. Tennessen.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

ANSP

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

SU

Stanford University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Odonata

Family

Libellulidae