Lestes Leach 1815
Creators: name: Costa, Janira M.
name: De Souza, Luiz Onofre I.
name: Muzón, Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Lestidae
Lestes

description: Key to adult males of Lestes known from Brazil
1. Paraprocts long, reaching end of cerci or slightly shorter (Fig. 21) ............................. 2
1’. Paraprocts short, 2/3 or less than the length of cerci .................................................... 3
2. Internal lamina of cerci, in dorsal view lacking teeth or with teeth small and poorly developed (Fig. 22) ................................................................................. L. bipupillatus
2’. Internal lamina of cerci, in dorsal view with well­developed teeth (Fig. 23)................... ........................................................................................................................ L. forficula
3. Distal end of cerci in spiral form (Fig. 24) ......................................................... L. helix
3’. Distal end of cerci not in spiral form ............................................................................ 4
4. Cerci in lateral view, undulate (Fig. 25) ..................................................... L. undulatus
4’. Cerci in lateral view, not undulate ................................................................................ 5
5. Internal lamina of cerci with basal spine ...................................................................... 6
5’. Internal lamina of cerci without basal spine ................................................................ 8
6. Distal end of internal lamina with a larger spine (Fig. 26) ............................ L. minutus
6’. Distal end of internal lamina without spine (Fig. 27) ................................................... 7
7. Latero­ventral carina with a median ventral spot (Fig. 28) .......................... L. jurzitzai
7’. Latero­ventral carina without a median ventral spot (Fig. 29) .................... L. paulistus
8. Medium­ventral groove on venter of thorax with two small black spots (Fig. 30) ........ ................................................................................................................ L. dichrostigma
8’. Medium­ventral groove on venter of thorax without black spots ................................ 9
9. Latero­ventral carina with a long, forked anterior spot (Fig. 31) .................... L. tricolor
9’. Latero­ventral carina with a short, linear anterior spot ............................................... 10
10. Medium­ventral groove on venter of thorax with a blackish stripe ............................ 11
10’. Medium­ventral groove on venter of thorax without a blackish stripe ...................... 12
11. Blackish stripe of medium­ventral groove not exceeding level of basal portion of latero­ventral carina (Fig. 32) .............................................................................. L. auritus
11’. Blackish stripe of medium­ventral groove reaching distal end of the groove (Fig. 33). ......................................................................................................................... L. falcifer
12. Latero­ventral carina with triangular black spot at posteriodistal end (Fig 34) L. pictus
12’. Latero­ventral carina without triangular black spot at posteriodistal end ................. 13
13. Latero­ventral carina with a median ventral black spot (Fig.35) ........ L. quadristriatus
13’. Latero­ventral carina without a median ventral spot (Fig. 36) .................. L. fernandoi
description: Published as part of Costa, Janira M., De Souza, Luiz Onofre I. & Muzón, Javier, 2006, Descriptions of three new species of Odonata from Brazil, pp. 53-68 in Zootaxa 1314 on pages 61-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1314.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/173923