ODONATA, Fabricius, 1793

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ODONATA [Responsible: A.P. Pinto]

This order is represented by two families, five genera and five species.

Coenagrionidae (Zygoptera)

Ischnura capreolus (Hagen, 1861)

Ischnura (Ceratura) capreola: Mesquita and Matteo (1991). Material examined. 19♂, 25♀.

Libellulidae ( Anisoptera )

Erythemis vesiculosa (Fabricius, 1775) Lepthemis vesiculosa: Alvarenga (1962); Mesquita and Matteo (1991).

Miathyria marcella (Selys in Sagra , 1857)

Miathyria marcella: Mesquita and Matteo (1991).

Material examined. 4♂, 3♀.

Pantala flavescens (Fabricius, 1798)

Pantala flavescens : Kirby (1890); Mesquita and Matteo (1991). Material examined. 1♂.

Tramea sp.

Tramea basalis (Burmeister, 1839) : Kirby (1890); Alvarenga (1962).

Remarks. Libellula basalis Burmeister, 1839 is currently considered a synonym of Tramea abdominalis (Rambur, 1842) . The identity of the species cited by Kirby (1890) as Tramea basalis (Burmeister, 1839) and transcribed by Alvarenga (1962) cannot be ascertained without examination of specimens from Ridley’s expedition housed in the NHMUK, due to nomenclatural confusion and ambiguities about the identity of at least three current valid species, i.e., T. abdominalis , T. binotata (Rambur, 1842) and T.cophysa Hagen, 1867 ( Calvert, 1906a; Ris, 1913). They are all widespread species in the Western Hemisphere. Furthermore, a species described in the 19th century, Libellula basalis Burmeister, 1839 , was a homonym of two other species, and later on L. basalis Burmeister was synonymized with T. cophysa ( Calvert, 1906a; but see Calvert, 1906b). In his revision of Libellulidae, Ris (1913) synonymized Libellula basalis Burmeister with T. abdominalis and mentioned the material from Fernando de Noronha as a synonym for T. cophysa (due to a misidentification by W. Kirby) based on the study by Kirby (1897). Decades later, De Marmels and Rácenis (1982) included Kirby’s (1897) T. basalis in the synonymy of Tramea calverti Muttkowski, 1910. Therefore, because neither Ris (1913) or De Marmels and Rácenis (1982) cited Kirby’s (1890) original study, and it is unclear if they examined those specimens, this Fernando de Noronha record is left identified only to genus level until the original material can be studied.