Three names, one species: junior synonyms for the Atlantic Forest emerald dragonfly <i>Navicordulia atlantica</i> (Odonata: Corduliidae s.s.)

Pinto, Ângelo Parise; Almeida, Marcus Vinícius Oliveira De; Ehlert, Juliana

doi:10.1590/1806-9665-RBENT-2022-0052

Ângelo Parise Pinto ^**Corresponding author: E-mail:appinto@ufpr.br (A. P. Pinto).

Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Zoologia, Laboratory of Systematics on Aquatic Insects (LABSIA), Curitiba, PR, Brasil.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1650-5666

Marcus Vinícius Oliveira De Almeida

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, Departamento de Entomologia, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3756-1197

Juliana Ehlert

Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Zoologia, Laboratory of Systematics on Aquatic Insects (LABSIA), Curitiba, PR, Brasil.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8998-7830

*Corresponding author: E-mail:appinto@ufpr.br (A. P. Pinto).

Associate Editor: Fabio Quinteiro

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Author contribution statement

APP conceived the study, compiled, organized, and analyzed the data, wrote the manuscript, revised, and approved its definitive version; MVOA and JE measured specimens, analyzed the data, wrote the manuscript, revised, and approved its definitive version.

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Figure 1
Habitus of the holotypes of Navicordulia species and their respective labels: (a) Navicordulia atlantica male; (b) Navicordulia mielkei male; (c) Navicordulia miersi female. All specimens in ABMM. Scale bars = 10 mm.

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Figure 2
Males (a, c–f) and females (b, g–j) of Navicordulia atlantica: (a–b) wings; (c–d) prothorax in dorsolateral view; (e–f) secondary genitalia in lateral view; (g–h) S8–10 in lateral (g), and dorsolateral (h) views; (i) allotype from Paraná State (ABMM); (j) holotype from Santa Catarina State (ABMM). (a–h) specimens from Ilha do Cardoso State Park, São Paulo State (DZUP); (i–j) adapted from Machado and Costa (1995Machado, A. B. M., Costa, J. M., 1995. Navicordulia gen. nov., a new genus of neotropical Corduliidae, with descriptions of seven new species (Anisoptera: Corduliidae). Odonatologica 24 (2), 187-218. Available in: https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/592119/OJIOS1995024002003.pdf (accessed 03 July 2022).
https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/59211... , figs. 29–30).

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Figure 3
Caudal appendages of males of Navicordulia atlantica in dorsal (a–d) and lateral (e–h) views: (a–b, e–f) holotypes from Joinville municipality, Santa Catarina State (ABMM), adapted from Machado and Costa (1995Machado, A. B. M., Costa, J. M., 1995. Navicordulia gen. nov., a new genus of neotropical Corduliidae, with descriptions of seven new species (Anisoptera: Corduliidae). Odonatologica 24 (2), 187-218. Available in: https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/592119/OJIOS1995024002003.pdf (accessed 03 July 2022).
https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/59211... , figs. 11, 13, 17–18); (c–d, g–h) original illustrations of specimens from Ilha do Cardoso State Park, São Paulo State (DZUP).

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Figure 4
Caudal appendages of males of Navicordulia atlantica in dorsal (a, d), lateral (b, e), and ventral view (c, f). All from Ilha do Cardoso State Park, São Paulo State (DZUP).

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Figure 5
Habitus of male (a) and female (b) of Navicordulia atlantica at Ilha do Cardoso State Park, Cananéia municipality, São Paulo State (DZUP). Photos by APP in 2011.

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Table 1
Main diagnostic characters used for Navicordulia and Navicordulia atlantica-complex species based on literature adapted from Machado and Costa (1995)Machado, A. B. M., Costa, J. M., 1995. Navicordulia gen. nov., a new genus of neotropical Corduliidae, with descriptions of seven new species (Anisoptera: Corduliidae). Odonatologica 24 (2), 187-218. Available in: https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/592119/OJIOS1995024002003.pdf (accessed 03 July 2022).
https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/59211... , Pinto and Lamas (2010Pinto, A. P., Lamas, C. J. E., 2010. Navicordulia aemulatrix sp. nov. (Odonata: Corduliidae) from northeastern Santa Catarina State, Brazil. Rev. Bras. Entomol. 54 (4), 608-617. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0085-56262010000400012.
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0085-5626201000... , 2011Pinto, A. P., Lamas, C. J. E., 2011. Description of the Female of Navicordulia aemulatrix Pinto & Lamas and Additional Notes on the Male (Odonata: corduliidae). Neotrop. Entomol. 40 (6), 698-703. Available in: https://www.scielo.br/j/ne/a/s4mzxRsYLtDX5Z4wtPvpNfn/?lang=en (accessed 03 July 2022).
https://www.scielo.br/j/ne/a/s4mzxRsYLtD... ), and Fleck and Juillerat (2019)Fleck, G., Juillerat, L., 2019. The genus Navicordulia Machado & Costa, 1995 (Insecta: Odonata: Corduliidae s.str.): new species, identification key for males and data on ecology and distribution. Zoosystema 41 (27), 553–565. https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a27.
https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2019v4... . Data from the type series were compiled from Machado and Costa (1995)Machado, A. B. M., Costa, J. M., 1995. Navicordulia gen. nov., a new genus of neotropical Corduliidae, with descriptions of seven new species (Anisoptera: Corduliidae). Odonatologica 24 (2), 187-218. Available in: https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/592119/OJIOS1995024002003.pdf (accessed 03 July 2022).
https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/59211... , the additional specimens are from this study. Not applicable = “—“.

Character / specimen	*N. atlantica*	*N. mielkei*	*N. miersi*	N. atlantica “morph”	N. mielkei “morph”	N. mielkei / N. miersi “morph”
Character / specimen	Male (n = 1)	Males (n = 3) and Females (n = 4)	Female (n = 1)	Male (n = 1)	Male (n = 1)	Female (n = 1)
	Types series			Additional specimens
1. Pt coloration	brownish black	pale yellow to brown	pale yellow	dark brown	dark brown	dark brown
2. Membranule coloration	destroyed in both wings	white to brown	light brown	light brown	light brown	light brown
3. Space between CuP-crossing and base of triangle in Hw (cubito-anal area)	one-celled (lacking supernumerary crossvein)	one-celled (lacking supernumerary crossvein)	two-celled (with one supernumerary crossvein)	one-celled (lacking supernumerary crossvein)	one-celled (lacking supernumerary crossvein)	one-celled (lacking supernumerary crossvein)
4. Anal field of Hw	destroyed in both wings	2–3 cells row (3 rows for 1-4 cells distance)	2 –3 cells row (3 rows for 3-4 cells distance)	2 cells row throughout	2 cells row throughout	2 cells row throughout
5. Genital lobe	quadrangular	quadrangular	—	quadrangular	quadrangular	—
6. Supralaminar process	—	cup-shaped lacking setae on posterior margin	dish-shaped with setae on posterior margin	—	—	dish-shaped with setae on posterior margin
7. Length of supralaminar process (ratio between total length of supralaminar process and total length of subgenital plate taken from posterior margin of S8)	—	0.66	0.66	—	—	0.62
8. Pilose complex on the sternite of S7	missing S7-8	1 transversal carina	—	1 transversal carina	1 transversal carina	—
9. Cercus length (ratio of cercus / epiproct)	as long as or slightly longer than epiproct (1.00)	shorter than epiproct (0.85–0.95)	—	as long as or slightly longer than epiproct (1.10)	shorter than epiproct (0.89)	—
10. Cercus in dorsal view	Almost parallel, slightly convergent to the apex, ending in a rounded tip	Almost parallel, slightly convergent to the apex, ending in a rounded tip	—	Almost parallel, slightly convergent to the apex, ending in a rounded tip	Almost parallel, slightly convergent to the apex, ending in a rounded tip	—
10. Cercus in dorsal view			—			—
11. Length of ventro-lateral carina of cercus (ratio of carinated / uncarinated part)	twice as long as uncarinated part (2.20)	twice as long as uncarinated part (2.00–2.60)	—	twice as long as uncarinated part (2.10)	twice as long as uncarinated part (2.70)	—
12. Ventro-medial carina	developed [?]	developed [?]	—	developed	developed	—
13. Ventro-medial tubercle	—	—	—	weakly developed	weakly developed	—
14. Ventro-lateral carina	developed	developed	—	developed	developed	—
15. Dorso-basal tubercle	weakly developed	weakly developed	—	weakly developed	weakly developed	—
16. Ventro-lateral tubercle	well developed	developed	—	well developed	developed	—
17. Setae distribution (fringe or brush of long hair)	sparse setae (without a brush of long hairs)	sparse setae (without a brush of long hairs)	—	sparse setae (without a brush of long hairs)	sparse setae (without a brush of long hairs)	—

[1] *Corresponding author: E-mail:appinto@ufpr.br (A. P. Pinto).

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Three names, one species: junior synonyms for the Atlantic Forest emerald dragonfly Navicordulia atlantica (Odonata: Corduliidae s.s.)

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