Abstract
Within the damselfly subfamily Platycnemidinae, eight species are currently recognized in South-East Asia. The final stadium larvae of only three of them have been so far described. The final stadi...
Highlights
The subfamily Platycnemidinae Yakobson & Bianchi, 1905 represents a group of white-legged damselflies (Platycnemididae) that generally inhabit both lentic and lotic habitats around the Old World (Dijkstra & Clausnitzer, 2014; Orr, 2005)
We provide detailed descriptions of the final stadium larva of C. chantaburii for the first time, and redescribe the larva P. ciliata
The general morphology of the genus Copera clearly differs from that of the genus Pseudocopera by the shape of the caudal lamellae (Orr & Dow, 2015) as the adult can be distinguished by genital ligula (Dijkstra, 2013)
Summary
The subfamily Platycnemidinae Yakobson & Bianchi, 1905 represents a group of white-legged damselflies (Platycnemididae) that generally inhabit both lentic and lotic habitats around the Old World (Dijkstra & Clausnitzer, 2014; Orr, 2005). Three species of Copera (C. chantaburii Asahina, 1984, C. marginipes (Rambur, 1842) and C. vittata (Sélys, 1863)) and one species of Pseudocopera (P. ciliata (Sélys, 1863)) have been recorded from Thailand (Asahina, 1993). The larval stage of C. marginipes and C. vittata were described by Lieftinck (1940) and Kumar (1973), whereas no descriptions or illustrations of the larva of C. chantaburii have yet been published. Matsuki (1993) provided short description of Pseudocopera ciliata, based on reared specimens from Taiwan and Hong Kong. We provide detailed descriptions of the final stadium larva of C. chantaburii for the first time, and redescribe the larva P. ciliata The larval stage of C. marginipes and C. vittata were described by Lieftinck (1940) and Kumar (1973), whereas no descriptions or illustrations of the larva of C. chantaburii have yet been published. Matsuki (1993) provided short description of Pseudocopera ciliata, based on reared specimens from Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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