Two new species of Archaeopodagrion (Odonata, Philogeniidae) from the western foothills of the Tropical Andes, with biological observations and distributional records

Vanessa Amaya-Vallejo; Cornelio Bota-Sierra; Rodolfo Novelo-Gutiérrez; Melissa Sánchez-Herrera

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1036.64230

Two new species of Archaeopodagrion (Odonata, Philogeniidae) from the western foothills of the Tropical Andes, with biological observations and distributional records

Zookeys. 2021 May 5:1036:21-38. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1036.64230. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Vanessa Amaya-Vallejo^{1

2}, Cornelio Bota-Sierra^{3

4}, Rodolfo Novelo-Gutiérrez³, Melissa Sánchez-Herrera^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Laboratorio de Zoología y Ecología Acuática, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá DC, Colombia Universidad de los Andes Bogotá Colombia.
² Grupo de investigación en Genética Evolutiva, Filogeografía y Ecología de Biodiversidad Neotropical, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá DC, Colombia Universidad del Rosario Bogotá Colombia.
³ Red de Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Instituto de Ecología AC, Xalapa, Veracruz, México Red de Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Instituto de Ecología AC Xalapa Mexico.
⁴ Grupo de Entomología, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia Universidad de Antioquia Medellín Colombia.

Abstract

Two new species of the damselfly genus Archaeopodagrion, A. recurvatum sp. nov. and A. mayi sp. nov., are described from the confluence of the Tropical Andes and the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena biodiversity hotspots. Adults differ from the other known species in the shape of female posterior lobe of pronotum and male structures of cerci and paraprocts; the larva differs from other Archaeopodagrion species in the caudal lamellae structure and in the mandibular formula. The two new species are diagnosed, a morphological key to all known males and females in the genus is provided, and geographical distributions are updated. Finally, observations on habitat preferences for each newly described species are provided.

Keywords: Biodiversity hotspots; Colombia; Ecuador; damselfly; female; larva; male.

Vanessa Amaya-Vallejo, Cornelio Bota-Sierra, Rodolfo Novelo-Gutiérrez, Melissa Sanchez-Herrera.

Grants and funding

ER, VAV and MSH acknowledge the financial assistance rendered by the Colombian Ministry of Science (COLCIENCIAS - Crecimiento Verde Grant no. 80740-147-2019, code 122280863907) for fieldwork expeditions to PNN Farallones de Cali. VAV thanks Universidad de Los Andes for funding fieldwork expeditions through the Proyecto Semilla Grant (INV-2018-48-1355) MSH thanks the National Geographic Society for funding collection expeditions in Ecuador through the Waitt Explorer Grant W265–13. CBS acknowledges the Rufford Foundation Grant 19846-1 for field work at Santa Cecilia.