Mesopodagrion tibetanum subsp. tibetanum McLachlan 1896
Creators: name: Yu, Xin
name: Bu, Wenjun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Megapodagrionidae
Mesopodagrion
Mesopodagrion tibetanum
Mesopodagrion tibetanum tibetanum mclachlan, 1896

description: Mesopodagrion tibetanum tibetanum McLachlan, 1896
Mesopodagrion tibetanum: McLachlan, 1896: 372 –273, “Moupin (now Baoxing, Sichuan, China)”; Needham, 1930: 239 –240, “Tibet”; Fraser, 1933: 96 –98, figs. 44, 45, 46 (c, d), “Tibet, Sichuan”; Lieftinck, 1948: 7, “ Burma, China (Shaanxi)” (in part); Asahina, 1955: 130 –133, figs. 1–6, “ Burma, China (Shaanxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Yunnan)” (in part); SUI & SUN, 1986: 294 –295, Fig. 201, “ Burma, China (Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang)” (in part); Chao, 1987: 112, 120; “ Burma, China (Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang)” (in part); Kalkman, 2008: 187, habits, key to species.
Material. 1 3, China, Moupin (now Baoxing, Sichuan), 189?,. (BMNH) [Holotype]; 2 3, 1 Ƥ, China, Sichuan, Wolong nature reserve, 2040m, 24-VII-2005, Xin Yu leg. (NKUM).
Description. Male. Labium black; labrum, bases of mandibles, genae, anteclypeus and sides of frons pale; postclypeus, middle of frons, and top of head, including antennae, black, except for a pair of short pale stripes between lateral ocelli and bases of antennae; postocular spots absent, pale occipital bar present (Fig. 4 b); upper border of Rear of head pale, remainder black (Fig. 3 b). Prothorax black except for a pair of pale stripes on propleura and lower-most margin; synthorax black dorsally with wide pale antehumeral stripe about 1/2 width of mespisternum, sides of synthorax pale except for ventral border (Fig. 4 b); legs black, pale at base; wings hyaline; pterostigmata brown, braced, covering three cells. S1-2 black dorsally, pale laterally; S2 with black stripe laterally; S3-6 black with pale basal spot and lateral stripe gradually narrowing distally; S7-8 black except for pale basal spot and a pair of ventral narrow stripes (figs. 2a, 2b); S9 black except for a pale latero-ventral spot; S10 black except for pale postero-lateral spot (Fig. 5 d); bifurcate process longer than 1/2 of S10, apex acute, outer margin inflectional, not smooth, hemline of bifurcate process about 1/2 width of S10 (Figs. 5 c, 11), foot-like from latero-ventral view (Fig. 18); caudal appendages black, cerci almost twice as long as S10, paraprocts vestigial (Figs. 5 d, 11); genital ligula simple, apical lobs bifurcated beyond the base (Fig. 2, d & e).
Female. Similar as male by color pattern but slightly shorter in body length and more robust (Fig. 2 c). S10 wholly black; ending before level of cerci, black except for pale tip (Fig. 6 a). Pale body color pattern on living female apple-green.
Distribution. Known from northwestern Burma and central Sichuan, China. The nominotypic subspecies occurs principally north of M. t. australe but south of M. yachowensis (Fig. 7). This subspecies is believed by Kalkman (2008) to occur in Kambaiti, NW Burma.
description: Published as part of Yu, Xin & Bu, Wenjun, 2009, A Revision of Mesopodagrion McLachlan, 1896 (Odonata: Zygoptera: Megapodagrionidae), pp. 59-68 in Zootaxa 2202 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189645