Redescription of Argia concinna (Rambur), with a description of Argia telesfordi spec. nov. from Grenada, West Indies (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae)

Abstract

Argia telesfordi sp. nov. a new species close to Argia concinna, is described from Grenada. Both species are illustrated and diagnosed. They can be distinguished by morphology of male tori, cerci and paraproct and female mesostigmal laminae. Their distribution is allopatric, with Argia telesfordi distributed on Grenada and Argia concinna known only from Guadeloupe and Dominica.

An updated checklist of Lesser Antillean Odonata

“…During the last 12 years (2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012), three new species (Daigle, 2007;Meurgey, 2006Meurgey, , 2009b) and the larval stage of five species (Meurgey, 2007a(Meurgey, , 2008(Meurgey, , 2009a(Meurgey, , 2010Meurgey & Daigle, 2007) have been described from this region as a result of our ongoing studies.…”

Richness and structure of an Odonata larval assemblage of a cloud forest stream in western Mexico

“…For example, Cora semiopaca Selys, 1878, endemic species to Costa Rica and Panama, has been recorded from a small, steep stream at the bottom of a shaded ravine ( Hofhansl & Schneeweihs 2008). Endemic Argia concinna (Rambur, 1842) lives in forested running water such as rivers, streams, or ravines in the Lesser Antilles ( Meurgey 2009). Cordulegaster sayi Selys, 1854, is endemic to the Longleaf Pine ecosystem in the south-eastern United States, living in a habitat consisting of »seepages on the slopes of steep hardwood bluffs above major streams or within ravines associated with these bluffs« ( Stevenson et al 2009).…”

Description of the larva ofArgia jujuyaRis (Coenagrionidae) with a key to species from the Argentinean Yungas cloud forest

“…Argia Rambur is a speciose genus of Coenagrionidae with a wide distribution in North and South America (Garrison, 1994). Of the 118 species of Argia currently recognized, larvae from 45 species (38%) are known (Caesar & Wenzel, 2009;Costa, Ravanello, & Souza-Franco, 2008;De Marmels, 2012;Garrison, von Ellenrieder, & Louton, 2010;Meurgey, 2011;Novelo-Gutiérrez, 1992Novelo-Gutiérrez & Gómez-Anaya, 2012;Pérez-Gutiérrez & Montes-Fontalvo, 2011) and knowledge about their ecology and behavior is scarce, especially in the the Neotropics. Argia jujuya Ris is known only from Northwestern Argentina, mainly from mountain cloud forests known as Yungas but also from drier habitats (von Ellenrieder & Garrison, 2007a).…”