Tauriphila australis

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Tauriphila australis
male specimen of Tauriphila australis, Soberania National Park in Panama

male specimen of Tauriphila australis , Soberania National Park in Panama

Systematics
Subordination : Dragonflies (Anisoptera)
Superfamily : Libelluloidea
Family : Libellulidae (Libellulidae)
Subfamily : Pantalinae
Genre : Tauriphila
Type : Tauriphila australis
Scientific name
Tauriphila australis
( Hagen , 1867)

The Tauriphila australis is one of the five dragonfly species of the genus Tauriphila from the subfamily Pantalinae . It occurs in Ecuador , Brazil and the Greater Antilles .

features

Construction of the Imago

Hind wings of a male

The animal reaches a length of around 43 millimeters. In the male animal, the forehead and mouth as well as the rest of the body are light clay yellow, with the forehead bulges and swellings between the secondary eyes having a strong purple sheen. The compound eyes are hazel color viewed from above seen from below rather drab. In the females, however, brown tones dominate, which slide into orange. The slightly smoked wings are slightly yellowish at the edge and at the base. There is a large, yellow-veined shadow at the base of the rear wing. The membranes are gray and almost blackish on the fore wings. The pterostigma , which is almost 3 millimeters long, is gray-brown.

Construction of the larva

The larva reaches a length of 20 to 21 millimeters. The round eyes are arranged laterally at the bottom of the head and the abdomen ends rather bluntly. The paired side plates (ventrolateral plates) of the eleventh abdominal segment , the so-called paraproct , are smooth when viewed from the side. The unpaired dorsal plate of the eleventh abdominal segment, the so-called epiproct , is 0.4 times as long as the paraproct. On the eighth segment there is a small hook-like extension. Furthermore, on the palp , a button on the mouthparts nine to twelve on, prementum find thirteen to fourteen bristles.

Naming

The female was first described as Tramea australis and the male as Tramea iphigenia by Hagen in 1867 . The holotype of the female comes from Cuba and is now part of the Hagen's Collection . The male's came from Bogotá and is now in the Louis Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology . As early as 1889 , W. F. Kirby established the genus Tauriphila with the Tauriphila iphigenia as a generotype . The togetherness of australis and iphigenia was suggested by Ris in 1913 and is considered recognized.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Henrik Steinmann: World Catalog of Odonata (Volume II Anisoptera). de Gruyter, 1997, ISBN 3-11-014934-6 , pp. 543f
  2. ^ Hermann August Hagen : The Neuroptera of the island of Cuba . In: Entomologische Zeitung , 28, Stettin 1867, p. 229
  3. ↑ Jerrell James Daigle: Florida Dragonflies (Anisoptera): A Species Key to the Aquatic Larval Stages . In: Technical Series 12, November 1, 1992