Brachymesia Kirby 1889
Creators: name: Mauffray, William F.
name: Tennessen, Kenneth J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Libellulidae
Brachymesia

description: Brachymesia Kirby, 1889
Two of the three species in this genus are recorded for Ecuador. Species are variable in color pattern, being either brown and black or mostly red (Fig. 86). See Needham et al. (2014) for species identification. Habitat consists of various ponds and swamps, even brackish water, usually vegetated.
Brachymesia furcata (Hagen, 1861). Publ. Recs. ECU: (H06), (P11), (H14); SU: * Dunkle (1981). Also ARG, BOL, BRA, CEN, CHL, GUF, PRY, PER, SUR, TTO, VEN: (H06, P11); plus COL: (H06, P&P).
Addl. Data. EO, Arenillas: 1 ♂, farm pond, seeps, 11 km S of Arenillas, on road to Alamar (-3.6436, -80.0989, 95m), 10 iv 2008, leg. & det. JTJ [JTJ]; Machala: borrow pit pond, Hwy. 25, S of Machala (-3.4750, -79.9778), 10 iv 2008, leg. & det. KJT [KJT]; SE, Salinas: 1 ♂, Salinas (-2.95, -80.13, 3m), 30 vi 1989, leg. L. Stange & R. Miller, det. GHB [FSCA]; SU, Shushufindi: 10 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, Limoncocha, Río Napo (-0.4000, -76.6167, 269m), 13–28 xi 1973, leg. B. Drummond III, det.? [FSCA, KJT]; 2 ♂♂, same data but 11–17 i 1974 [FSCA]; 45 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, same data but 1–27 xi 1980, leg. & det. MJW [FSCA]; 2 ♂♂, same data but 23 viii 1980, leg. & det. SWD [UTIC]; 5 ♂♂, same data but 3–16 vi 1977, leg. P. Spangler & D. Givens, det. RWG [RWG, USNM]; 1 ♀, same data but lake edge, 5 vii 1971, leg. D. Pearson, det. DRP [DRP]; 3 ♂♂, same data but 16–25 viii 1971 [DRP]; 1 ♂, same data but 2 x 1971 [DRP]; 2 ♂♂, same data but 11 xii 1971; 1 ♂, same data but 13 i 1972; 1 ♂, same data but 20 ii 1972 [DRP]; 1 ♀, same data but 6 iii 1972; 13 ♂♂, 1 ♀, same data but 24–26 vii 1977, leg. & det. DRP [DRP]; 2 ♂♂, same data but forest edge, 25–26 vi 1977, leg. & det. DRP [DRP].
Brachymesia herbida (Gundlach, 1889). Publ. Recs. ECU: (P11), (H14); CB: Campos (1922 —as Cannacria batesi); GA: * Currie (1901 —as Holotype C. fumipennis: “ Galapagos Is” [Isabela], Albemarle, 23 iii 1899, leg. R. Snodgrass, USNM], Calvert (1907), Ris (1912), Campos (1922), (P11), (Peck 1992); NA: Tennessen (1998); SU: Dunkle (1981). Also ARG, BOL, BRA, CEN, COL, GUF, GUY, PRY, PER, TTO, VEN: (H06), (P11); plus SUR: (H06).
Addl. Data. GA. Isabela: 2 ♀♀, Isla Isabela, littoral zone, 2 iii 1989, leg. & det. S. Peck [USNM]; 1 ♂, same data but arid zone, 10 iii 1989 [USNM]; Santa Cruz: 2 ♀♀, Isla Santa Cruz, Tortuga Bay, 30 i 1989, leg. & det. S. Peck, et. al. [USNM]; GY, Guayaquil: 1 ♀, Puna Vieja (-2.97, -80.18, 30m), leg. F. Campos, det. MJW [ANSP]; LR, Babahoyo: 1 ♀, swamp at Babahoyo, 12 vi 1975, leg. J. Cohen & A. Langley, det.? [USNM]; Buena Fé: 1 ♂, [Consumulo], S Río Palenque (-0.58, -79.35, 175m), 16 vi 1974, leg. J. Longino, det.? [FSCA]; OR, Francisco de Orellana: 2 ♂♂, trib. of Río Payamino, road to Loreto, 1.7 km W of jct. w/ Coca Road (-0.4367, -77.0017, 258m), 18 xi 1997, leg. & det. KJT [KJT]; 1 ♂, same but leg. & det. WFM [FSCA]: SU, Shushufindi: 1 ♂, Limoncocha, Río Napo (-0.4000, -76.6167, 269m), 31 x 1980, leg. & det. MJW [FSCA]; 1 ♀, same data but 3 xi 1980 [FSCA]; 1 ♀, same data but lakeshore, 26 vii 1977, leg. DRP & S. Hills, det. DRP [DRP]; same data but 22 viii 1980, leg. & det. SWD [KJT]; 6 ♂♂, 1 ♀, same data but 23 viii 1980 [JJD, SWD]; 2 ♂♂, La Selva, 100 km E of Coca, Garzaco- cha, 12 x 1988, leg. & det. SWD [UTIC].
description: Published as part of Mauffray, William F. & Tennessen, Kenneth J., 2019, A Catalogue and Historical Study of the Odonata of Ecuador, pp. 1-265 in Zootaxa 4628 (1) on pages 148-149, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4628.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3335707