Lais pudica, Hagen in Selys, 1853

Mélanie Turiault, 2016, The type material of Calopterygidae in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (Odonata), Odonatologica 45 (1), pp. 95-106 : 103

Original combination: Laïs pudica Hagen in Selys, 1853

Status: available species-group name; valid species

Current combination: Mnesarete pudica (Hagen in Selys, 1853)

Type material. One male, one female; collecting locality: Brazil; collector: Friedrich Sellow (Sello)

Verbatim label data male 4a9508: (1) » Pudica / Hagen / Brasil. Sellow« [handwritten]; (2) » Typus « [printed]; (3) »Zool. Mus. / Berlin« [printed]; (4) »2275« [printed]; (5) »Note: abdominal / segments 8-10 are / those of Hetaerina / probably H. hebe Sélys / R. Garrison 1997« [handwritten]; (6) » Lais (=Mnesareta) pudica Hagen « [printed]; (7) »http://coll.mfnberlin.de/u/4a9508« [printed].

Verbatim label data female 4a9509: (1) »ad 2275 / Brasilien / Sello.« [handwritten]; (2) » Typus « [printed]; (3) »Zool. Mus. / Berlin« [printed]; (4)»http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/4a9509« [printed].

Notes. In his more detailed description in Hagen & Selys (1854), H.A. Hagen described male and female characteristics, also age related differences (for example, » ♂ jeune«), and mentioned: »Patrie. La province d’Ypanema au Brésil, d’où le Musée de Vienne l’a reçue par M. Natterer. − Le Brésil, d’après les exemplaires du Musée de Berlin pris par M. Sellow«. The male and the female specimens preserved in the Berlin collection should be considered syntypes. According to St. Quentin (1970) two male syntypes from Brasil (Ypanema) are deposited in coll. NHMW.