Odonatologica 35(4):
385-388
December
I, 2006
Argiolestes indentatus spec. nov. from Papua New Guinea
(Zygoptera: Megapodagrionidae)
²
G. Theischinger¹and S.J. Richards
1
NSW
Department of
Environment and
Australia; 2
Vertebrates
—
Department,
The
sp. is
new
the affinities
South Australian
Lakekarau:
March
sp.
lowland
29,
Lidcombe NSW
1825,
14, 2006
are
forest
/ Reviewed and
discussed.
(120
Museum, North Terrace,
Adelaide
SA
5000,
[email protected]
-
described, diagnostic
of the
P.O. Box
[email protected]
Australia;
Received
Conservation,
m
characters of the 6:
Holotype
10, 2006
Accepted April
adult S
Papua
New
illustrated and
are
Guinea,
a.s.l.), 25-XI-1996; deposited in
Golf prov.,
South Australian
Museum, Adelaide.
INTRODUCTION
Damselfiies of the
dark, mostly thorax,
and
Moluccan ea.
megapodagrionid
metallic
species
possibly
abdomen.
species,
Recent surveys
and TSUDA
by
the
Guinea have revealed
(RICHARDS fourth in nean
a
et
a
junior
al., 1998).
Argiolestes
genus
blue
exhibiting
LIEFTINCK listed 29
(2000)
or
are
rather
orange
(1956)
revised
species
from
large, slender,
markings the
In this
paper
series of papers that aims
to
at
we
least
one
on
Papuan
head, and
New Guin-
Papua
author in the southern lowlands of
diverse fauna and
Papua
undescribed
New
Argiolestes
describe and illustrate it. This is the
address taxonomic novelties in New Gui-
Odonata collected by SJR between 1996 and 2001 (THEISCHINGER &
RICHARDS 2005, 2006a, Descriptive terminology largely oration is a camera
given as
detectable
lucida and
If not indicated seum
often
(SAMA),
are
follows CHAO
from the
preserved
(1953)
and WATSON &
material. All illustrations
0’FARRELL(199I).Colwere
done with the aid
of
not to scale.
otherwise
North
2006b).
the material is
Terrace, Adelaide,
deposited in
the Collection
South Australia.
of the South Australian Mu-
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G.
Theischinger
& SJ. Richards
ARGIOLESTES INDENTATUS Figures
Material. lowland
forest
Richards $
leg.;
-
(120 1
Holotype m
paratype
S
—
The
(SAM A 121727): Papua
New
transect S Ivimka
specific
name
Gulf
Guinea,
province, Lakekamu,
Camp (146°29’45”E, 7°44’05”S),25-XI-1996, S.J. Richards
(SAMA121729), Lakekamu, XI-X1I-1996,
(SAMA 121730), dam R4
Etymology.
