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Issue: Vol. 4586 No. 3: 18 Apr. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-04-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4586.3.7
Page range: 505–516
Abstract views: 55
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Podolestes Selys, 1862 from peat swamp forest in Sarawak (Odonata: Zygoptera: Argiolestidae)

Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands Sarawak Museum Campus Project, Jabatan Muzium Sarawak, Jalan Barrack, 9300 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.
Conservation Division, Central Nature Reserve, Windsor Nature Park, 30 Venus Drive, Singapore 573858, Republic of Singapore.
Odonata Argiolestidae Borneo Sarawak Maludam Ulu Sebuyau peat swamp forest Podolestes parvus Podolestes atomarius new species

Abstract

Podolestes parvus sp. nov. is described and illustrated from both sexes from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo (holotype male Maludam National Park, Betong Division, Sarawak, 10 vii 2012, deposited in RMNH). The new species is closest to P. atomarius Lieftinck, 1950 and is the smallest species yet known in its genus. A full set illustrations of P. atomarius is provided for comparison. [Species Zoobank URL: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EE7ABAB0-8683-4D25-8A2C-76977931FD87]

 

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