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Microneura caligata Hagen in Selys, 1886

Blue-and-orange threadtail

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1973

Rediscovered in 2012

IUCN RedList status: Endangered

 

Distribution

Guamuhaya Mountains, Cuba (central)

 

Biology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

de Selys Longchamps, E. (1886). Révision du synopsis des Agrionines. Première partie comprenant les légions Pseudostigma - Podagrion - Platycnemis et Protoneura. Mémoires couronnés de l'Académie royale de Belgique 38(4): 1-233.


Other references:

Pastor Alayo D. 1968. Las Libelulas de Cuba. Parte I: Texto; Parte II: Laminas. Torreia, Nueva Serie Nos. 2 & 3, Habana.

Paulson, D. and von Ellenrieder, N. (2006). Microneura caligata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T60260A12317979. . Downloaded on 12 September 2015.

Trapero Quintana, A. and Naranjo López, C. 2003. Revision of the order Odonata in Cuba. Bulletin of American Odonatology 7: 23-40.

Westfall Jr., M.J. 1964. Notes on the Odonata of Cuba. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Science 27: 67-85.

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