Mecistogaster amalia ( Burmeister, 1839 )

Soldati Lacerda, Déborah S. & Monteiro Machado, Angelo B., 2019, The damselfly genus Mecistogaster (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest with a description of three new species and a neotype designation for M. amalia (Burmeister, 1839), Zootaxa 4668 (2), pp. 207-228 : 212-213

Mecistogaster amalia ( Burmeister, 1839)

( Figs 4 , 9 , 15, 16 , 23, 24 , 27, 28 , 32, 33 )

Neotype. ♁ ( ABMM), Brazil, Minas Gerais State, Inconfidentes, Fazenda do Instituto Federal (22° 18’ 42” S, 46° 19’ 30” W), 16.III.2017, M. M. Cajubi leg.

First described female. ♀ ( ABMM), Brazil, Minas Gerais State, Inconfidentes, Fazenda do Instituto Federal (22° 18’ 42” S, 46° 19’ 30” W), 16.III.2017, M. M. Cajubi leg.

Neotype found in copula with first described female.

Material examined. 37 ♁♁, 13 ♀♀. Brazil, Bahia State: Valença, 9.XII.1986, Mata da Viúva , L. F. Netto leg. (♁, ABMM) ; Minas Gerais State: Coronel Fabriciano, Parque Estadual do Rio Doce , IV.1959, Machado leg. (♁, ABMM) ; idem, Ibirité, Parque Estadual da Serra do Rola-Moça, Taboões , IV.1979, Machado leg. (♁, ABMM) ; idem, Fazenda do Cedro , 27.I.1959 (♁, ABMM) ; São Paulo State: Morro do Jaraguá , 26.III.1961, Vulcano leg. (♁, ABMM) ; Rio de Janeiro State: Duque de Caxias, Imbariê , 22.II.1965, Ebert leg. (♁, MNRJ) ; idem, 10.II.1966 (♁, MNRJ) ; idem, Jacarepaguá , Represa dos Ciganos, 1.V.1963, N. Santos leg. (♁, MNRJ) ; idem, Covanca de Jacarepaguá , 5.I.1963, Mielke leg. (♁, ABMM) ; idem, Represa do Camorim , 22.III.1964, N. Santos, Ipiranga & Borges leg. (♁, MNRJ) ; Espírito Santo State: Conceição da Barra , 13.IV.1968, Paulo Elias leg. (♁, MNRJ) ; idem, 13-18.V.1968 (♁, MNRJ) ; idem, 28-31.X.1968 (♁, 14 specimens, MNRJ) ; idem, Vitória , IX.1937, M. Leitão leg. (♁, MNRJ) ; idem, Córrego do Agelim , 16.X.1968, Paulo Elias leg. (♁, MNRJ) ; idem, Linhares , IV.1974, Pau- lo Elias leg. (♁, MNRJ) ; idem, Sooretama , X.1962, Vulcano leg. (♁, ABMM) ; Santa Catarina State: Joinville , 14.XI.1980, Miers leg. (♁, ABMM) ; idem, 15.XI.1979 (♁, ABMM) ; idem, 6.III.1979 (♁, ABMM) ; idem, 3.II.1980 (♁, ABMM) ; idem, 28.II.1979 (♀, ABMM) ; idem, 14.II.1982 (♀, ABMM) ; idem, 27.I.1985 (♀, ABMM) ; idem, III.1985 (♀, ABMM) ; idem, São Bento do Sul , 22.III.1982, Miers, leg. (♁, ABMM) ; idem, 22.III.1982 (♀, ABMM) ; idem, 24.III.1982 (♀, ABMM) ; idem, 22.III.1983 (♀, ABMM) ; idem, 26.I.1985 (♀, ABMM) ; idem, Blumenau , XII.1927 (♀, ABMM) ; Paraná State: Jussara , 12.XII.1975, Mielke leg. (♁, ABMM) ; idem, Guarapuava , 14.I.1980 (♀, ABMM) ; idem, Morretes, Morro Alto , 11.IV.2015, Mielke & Dolibaina leg. (♀, ABMM) ; Rio Grande do Sul State: Pareci Novo , I.1938, P. Buck leg. (♁, ABMM) ; idem, 31.XII.1939 (♀, ABMM) ; idem, Gravataí, Distrito de Morungava , 7.XI.1959, O. A. Pereira leg. (♀, ABMM) .

Figures

FIGURES 4–7. Males of Atlantic Forest species of Mecistogaster. (4) Mecistogaster amalia, specimen compared with neotype: head in dorso-anterior view; (5–6) Mecistogaster mielkei sp. nov., holotype: (5) prothorax in dorsal view; paratype: (6) pterothorax in ventral view; Mecistogaster kesselringi sp. nov., paratype: (7) pterothorax in ventral view.

FIGURES 8–10. Males of Atlantic Forest species of Mecistogaster. (8) Mecistogaster kesselringi sp. nov., paratype: pterothorax in lateral view; (9) Mecistogaster amalia, neotype: pterothorax in lateral view; (10) Mecistogaster amalia, presumed type in Halle Museum: pterothorax in lateral view.

FIGURES 11–16. Atlantic Forest species of Mecistogaster. (11–14) Mecistogaster kesselringi sp. nov., holotype ♁: (11) forew- ing, (12) hindwing; paratype ♀: (13) forewing, (14) hindwing; (15–16) Mecistogaster amalia, first described ♀: (15) forewing, (16) hindwing.

FIGURES 23–26. Males of Atlantic Forest species of Mecistogaster. (23–24) Mecistogaster amalia, specimen compared with neotype: (23) penis in ectal view, (24) penis in lateral view [part of flagellum cut to fit the image]; (25–26) Mecistogaster nordestina sp. nov., holotype: (25) penis in ectal view, (26) penis in lateral view [part of flagellum cut to fit the image].

FIGURES 27–28. Male cerci of Atlantic Forest species of Mecistogaster amalia, neotype. (27) cerci in dorsal view, (28) cerci in lateral view.

FIGURES 29–33. Females of Atlantic Forest species of Mecistogaster. (29–31) Mecistogaster kesselringi sp. nov., allotype: (29) S9–10 showing ovipositor in lateral view, (30) cerci in dorsal view, (31) epiproct in dorsal view; (32–33) Mecistogaster amalia, allotype: (32) cerci in dorsal view, (33) epiproct in dorsal view.