Bayadera continentalis Asahina 1973
Creators: name: Phan, Quoc Toan
name: Kompier, Tom
name: Karube, Haruki
name: Hayashi, Fumio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Euphaeidae
Bayadera
Bayadera continentalis

description: Bayadera continentalis Asahina, 1973
(Fig. 5a–h)
Bayadera brevicauda continentalis: Asahina (1973), pp. 455–457, Figs 44–49; Asahina (1978), p. 45, Fig. 6; Chao (1981), p. 23; Davies & Tobin (1984), pp. 22–23; Wilson & Reels (2003), p. 250.
Bayadera continentalis: Hämäläinen (2004), pp. 388–391, Fig. 10; Wilson & Zaifu (2007), pp. 101, 120. Zhang (2010), p. 25 (species list).
Materials examined. [Vietnam] 1♂, Pia Oac Nature Reserve, Cao Bang Prov., 22–24.V.2010, H. Karube leg. (KPM); 2♂ 2♀, Pia Oac Nature Reserve, Cao Bang Prov., 16–20.V.2015, Q. T. Phan and T. Kompier leg. (PQTC); 2♂, Pia Oac Nature Reserve, Cao Bang Prov., 1.V.2015, T. Kompier leg. (TKC); 2♂ 1♀, Dong Van, Ha Giang Prov., 2.V.2011, F. Hayashi leg. (FHC); 1♂, Tam Dao National Park, Vinh Phuc Prov., 24.IV.2016, T. Kompier leg. (TKC). [China] ♂ holotype, 1.V.1946, and ♀ allotype, 6.V.1946, Kuatun, Fukien, Asahina’s leg. (NSMT); 1♂, Shaoguan, Nanling Reserve, Guangdong Prov., 21.V.2009 and 2♂, same location, 9.VI.2011, H. Zhang leg. (KPM); 1♂ 1♀, Cenwanglaoshan, Guangxi Prov., 18.V.2016, F. Hayashi leg. (FHC).
Other materials confirmed by field observations. [Vietnam] 3♂, Tam Dao, Vinh Phuc Prov., 8.V.2016, T. Kompier; 2 exs, Tam Dao, Vinh Phuc Prov., 1.V.2017, T. Kompier.
Notes. This species is recorded from Vietnam for the first time. The specimens from Dong Van match the original description (Asahina 1973) well, especially by having the heart-shaped yellow marking straddling the metepisternum and metepimeron of synthorax (Fig. 5a, d). Hämäläinen (2004) upgraded Bayadera continentalis from subspecies to species level, because there are clear differences in the colour pattern and structure of anal appendages. In Bayadera continentalis paraprocts are only narrowly separated in dorsal view, while those of B. brevicauda are more widely spaced. However, males from Pia Oac Nature Reserve of northern Vietnam and from Guangdong Prov. of southern China differed slightly from the type specimens of Bayadera continentalis by having a very dark synthorax with the marking on metepisternum reduced into a narrow stripe (Fig. 5e); paraprocts of the specimens from Dong Van (Vietnam) and Guangxi (China) are more closely spaced as in the original description (Fig. 5b–c) although the paraprocts of the specimens from Pia Oac are separated further, but the deep incision of S10 and the shape of the cerci with strongly curved apex supports identification as B. continentalis (Fig. 5f). In the specimens of Dong Van and Guangdong, labrum, mandibles, genae, and color of the dorsal head markings are yellowish, but bluish in the males from Pia Oac Mountain. Wings of the specimens from Guangdong and Dong Van are hyaline, but slightly darkened at tip in males from Pia Oac (Fig. 5h).
Distribution. Vietnam (Ha Giang, Cao Bang and Vinh Phuc Provinces), China (Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces) (Wilson & Reels 2003, Hämäläinen 2004, Wilson & Zaifu 2007).
description: Published as part of Phan, Quoc Toan, Kompier, Tom, Karube, Haruki & Hayashi, Fumio, 2018, A synopsis of the Euphaeidae (Odonata: Zygoptera) of Vietnam, with descriptions of two new species of Euphaea, pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4375 (2) on pages 158-160, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4375.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1158445