Peristicta guarellaesp. nov. from Brazil (Odonata: Protoneuridae)

Abstract

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In honor of conservation of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: description of two new damselflies of the genus Forcepsioneura discovered in private protected areas (Odonata: Coenagrionidae)

“…The males recently collected in Rio de Janeiro and Paraná by APP and which have been associated to this species are bluish. Analogous to other small Protoneurinae, such as species of Drepanoneura von Ellenrieder & Garrison, 2008, Epipleoneura Williamson, 1915, and Peristicta Hagen in Selys, 1860(see von Ellenrieder and Garrison 2008, Anjos-Santos and Pessacq 2013, Pessacq 2014, they are strongly similar, and due to their extreme similarity in external morphology and coloration, species identification is only possible through careful examination of the caudal appendages and genital ligula. Therefore, it is possible that this complex of bluish species is a set of cryptic species (remember that even specialists have failed to identify them as distinct entities).…”