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Protoneura caligata (Hagen in Selys, 1886)

Blue-and-orange threadtail

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Microneura caligata Hagen in Selys, 1886

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1973

Rediscovered in: 2012

IUCN RedList status: Endangered

 

Distribution & Habitat

Guamuhaya Mountains, central Cuba

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

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:

Lorenzo-Carballa, M. Olalla, Torres-Cambas, Yusdiel, Ferreira, Sonia, Trapero-Quintana, Adrian D. and Cordero-Rivera, Adolfo. (2016). Microneura is a junior synonym of Protoneura (Zygoptera, Coenagrionidae). International Journal of Odonatology 19(1-2): 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13887890.2016.1138692

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

Paulson, Dennis R. (2018). The Odonata of North America, including Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. Bulletin of American Odonatology 12(4): 35-46.

Paulson, Dennis R. 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, M. J., Jr., (1964). Notes on the Odonata of Cuba. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Science 27: 67-85.

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