Two new species of the family Philogeniidae (Odonata: Zygoptera) from the Western Colombian Andes

Abstract

The family Philogeniidae was recently proposed as a monophyletic clade grouping the genera Philogenia and Archaeopodagrion. Here, two new species found during recent expeditions to the Western Colombian Andes are described, Archaeopodagrion fernandoi sp. nov. and Philogenia martae sp. nov. Also, Philogenia zeteki is recorded for the first time in Colombia. Natural history notes, a taxonomic key for Archaeopodagrion, a distributional map, illustrations, photographs, and notes on the morphology of Philogeniidae are provided.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:965D2249-2C16-459B-83B5-2C7786ECBFC0 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:15C91068-1199-48FF-8729-D90C465AEE3A

Keywords:

• damselfly
• dragonfly
• Archaeopodagrion fernandoi
• Philogenia martae
• Philogenia zeteki
• Tatamá National Park
• Orquídeas National Park
• Farallones de Cali National Park
• oviposition

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to all the people who helped me in the field: Angie Orejuela, Blas Cardenas, Andrés Chinome, Camilo Flórez, Daniela Ayala, Fernanda García, Juliana Sandoval and Mario Loaíza. Thanks to Yenny Correa for collections of A. fernandoi from Orquídeas National Park. I wish to thank Juliana Sandoval for her help with specimen measurements at the museum. I am grateful to Natalia Uribe for the use of her hand-drawn illustrations. I wish to thank Professor Jürg De Marmels for sharing unpublished data, his help with bibliography, discussion and advice during this work. Thanks to Wendy Valencia, Juliana Sandoval, and Professors Rodolfo Novelo, Jürg De Marmles, Natalia von Ellenrieder and an anonymous reviewer for their comments and review of the manuscript. I thank G. Londoño, Montezuma Rainforest, CARDER, and Anchicayá team for providing supplies and logistic assistance during fieldwork. I thank Tatamá National Park research equipment and rangers for their help during all the research performed there.

ORCID

Cornelio A. Bota-Sierra http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6555-7913

Additional information

Funding

This work was partially supported by the Rufford Foundation [grant number 19846-1].