Amphipteryx Selys, 1853

Jocque, Merlijn & Argueta, Ivany, 2014, A new species in the genus Amphipteryx Selys, 1853 (Odonata, Amphipterygidae) from Pico Bonito National Park, Honduras, ZooKeys 408, pp. 71-80 : 72-73

Amphipteryx Selys, 1853

Amphipteryx Selys 1853: 66.

Type species.

Amphipteryx agrioides Selys 1853, by original designation.

Other species included.

Amphipteryx chiapensis González–Soriano 2010, Amphipteryx meridionalis González-Soriano 2010, Amphipteryx nataliae González-Soriano 2010.

General.

Amphipteryx is the only genus in Amphipterygidae ( Dijkstra et al. 2013). Rimanella , with its monotypic species Rimanella arcana (Needham 1933), was formally included in Amphipterygidae but it was recently placed in its own monotypic family Rimanellidae ( Dijkstra et al. 2013).

Distribution.

Amphipteryx occurs at small mountain streams from Hidalgo Oaxaca, Puebla and Veracruz States, Mexico east into Guatemala and Honduras.

Biology.

Adults perch with wings closed on vegetation overhanging water near seepages and small streams ( González-Soriano 1991); larvae live in rough gravel and rapid-flow areas of small shallow creeks, and among leaf litter at lips of small waterfalls ( Novelo-Gutiérrez 1995). With one exception (below) all Mexican populations are associated with tropical wet forests (i. e. cloud or tropical rain forests) and the same apparently is true for other Central American populations.

Key to males of Amphipteryx

This key is a modification of the one from González-Soriano (2010) and reference should be made to illustrations for other species in that paper.

Key to females of Amphipteryx (female of Amphipteryx chiapensis unknown)