Untangling the waterfall damsels: a review of the Mesoamerican genus Paraphlebia Selys in Hagen, 1861 (Odonata: Thaumatoneuridae) with descriptions of 11 new species

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by Ortega-Salas H, González-Soriano E & Jocque M

Abstract:

A review of the Mesoamerican genus Paraphlebia Selys in Hagen, 1861 is presented, including diagnoses, illustrations of diagnostic characters, and distribution maps for all species. A key to the known males and females is provided. Eleven new species are described: P. akan Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano. sp. nov., P. chaak Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano sp. nov., P. chiarae Ortega-Salas sp. nov., P. esperanza Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano sp. nov., P. flinti Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano sp. nov., P. hunnal Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano sp. nov., P. itzamna Ortega-Salas, Jocque & González-Soriano sp. nov., P. ixchel Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano sp. nov., P. kauil Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano sp. nov., P. kinich Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano sp. nov., and P. kukulkan Jocque & Ortega-Salas sp. nov.

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Ortega-Salas H, González-Soriano E & Jocque M 2022. Untangling the waterfall damsels: a review of the Mesoamerican genus Paraphlebia Selys in Hagen, 1861 (Odonata: Thaumatoneuridae) with descriptions of 11 new species. Zootaxa, vol. 5089, no. 1, pp. 1–66, doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5089.1.1.

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@article{ortega-salas_untangling_2022,
	title = {Untangling the waterfall damsels: a review of the {Mesoamerican} genus {Paraphlebia} {Selys} in {Hagen}, 1861 ({Odonata}: {Thaumatoneuridae}) with descriptions of 11 new species},
	volume = {5089},
	issn = {1175-5334, 1175-5326},
	shorttitle = {Untangling the waterfall damsels},
	url = {https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5089.1.1},
	doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.5089.1.1},
	abstract = {A review of the Mesoamerican genus Paraphlebia Selys in Hagen, 1861 is presented, including diagnoses, illustrations of diagnostic characters, and distribution maps for all species. A key to the known males and females is provided. Eleven new species are described: P. akan Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano. sp. nov., P. chaak Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano sp. nov., P. chiarae Ortega-Salas sp. nov., P. esperanza Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano sp. nov., P. flinti Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano sp. nov., P. hunnal Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano sp. nov., P. itzamna Ortega-Salas, Jocque & González-Soriano sp. nov., P. ixchel Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano sp. nov., P. kauil Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano sp. nov., P. kinich Ortega-Salas & González-Soriano sp. nov., and P. kukulkan Jocque & Ortega-Salas sp. nov.},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2023-08-14},
	journal = {Zootaxa},
	author = {Ortega-Salas, Héctor and González-Soriano, Enrique and Jocque, Merlijn},
	month = jan,
	year = {2022},
	pages = {1--66},
}