“…A total of 218 species of odonates was estimated for the state of Minas Gerais in Southeast Brazil in 1998 . Since then, however, 26 new odonate species have been described for state, increasing the total number of recorded species to at least 244 (Machado, 2000(Machado, , 2002(Machado, , 2005a(Machado, , 2005b(Machado, , 2007a(Machado, , 2007bCosta et al, 2000b;Tennessen, 2004;Garrison, 2006;Machado & Bedê, 2006;Pessacq & Costa, 2007;Costa et al, 2009;Santos et al, 2010;Machado & de Souza, 2014;Machado & Bedê, 2015;Pinto & Almeida, 2016;Ávila-Júnior et al, 2017).…”