Syncordulia venator Barnard
Creators: name: Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B.
name: Samways, Michael J.
name: Simaika, John P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Corduliidae
Syncordulia
Syncordulia venator

description: Syncordulia venator (Barnard) — ‘Mahogany Presba’
Figs 3, 7, 11, 15, 20.
Presba venator Barnard, 1933: 167. Lectotype ♂ (designated by Kimmins 1968: 301): Cape Province, French Hoek [= Franschhoek], xii.1932, K.H. Barnard (BMNH) [examined].
Syncordulia venator (Barnard, 1933) – Lieftinck (1961: 415).
Further type material: Paratype Ψ (‘allotype’), Cape Province, French Hoek, xii.1932, K.H. Barnard (BMNH); paratype ď, Hott[entots] Holl[and] Mts, East side, 4000 ft, i.1933, K.H. Barnard (BMNH).
Further material: 1 ď Hott[entots] Holl[and] Mts, East side, 4000 ft, xi.1932, K.H. Barnard (SAMC); 1 Ψ Hott[entots] Holl[and] Mts, East side, 4000 ft, i.1933, K.H. Barnard (SAMC); 1ď, 2 Ψ Cape Province, French Hoek, xii.1932, K.H. Barnard; 3 ď, 1 Ψ Cape, Table Mt, Orange Kloof, i.1933, H.G. Wood (SAMC); 1 ď, Cape, Bain’s Kloof, Wellington Mts, Witte River, i.1934, H.G. Wood (SAMC); 1 ď, Cape, Table Mt, Orange Kloof, 7.i.1934, K.H. Barnard (BMNH); 1 ď, Cape, Table Mt, Orange Kloof, 7.i.1934, leg. unknown (NMBZ); 1 Ψ, Cape Province, Ladismith, Garcia’s Pass Forestry, 15.xi.1940, G. van Son (TMSA); 1 ď, George, Jonkersberg, 18.xi.1940, G. van Son (TMSA); 1 Ψ, Cape, Bain’s Kloof, Wit River, xii.1949, Museum Staff (SAMC); 2 Ψ, Cape Province, Knysna, Kruis Valley, N. of Buffelsnek Forest, 22.i.1971, Cottrell (NMBZ); 3 ď, Robinson Pass, N. of Mosselbaai, 9–13.xii.1987, D.A.L. Davies (CUMZ); 1 ď, Ψ, Du Toit’s Kloof, 13.xii.1996, M.J. Samways (SUEC); 1 ď, Villiersdorp, 15.xii.1996, M.J. Samways (SUEC); 1 Ψ, Du Toit’s Kloof, 9.xi.1999, M.J. Samways (SUEC); 1 Ψ, Villiersdorp, 11.xi.1999, M.J. Samways (SUEC); 1 Ψ (teneral), Table Mountain, 22.xi.2005, J.P. Simaika, M.J. Samways & T.R. New (SUEC); 1 ď, border of Western and Eastern Cape, Bloukrans River at crossing of R102, broad rocky river in forested gorge, 30.i.2006, K.- D.B. Dijkstra (RMNH); 1 ď, Western Cape, Table Mountain, gorge above Hely Hutchinson Dam, rocky stream in fynbos, 22.ii.2006, K.-D.B. Dijkstra (RMNH); 1 Ψ, Western Cape, Limietberg Nature Reserve, Du Toit’s Kloof, Kromrivier, 12.xi.2006, M. Samways, M.J. Samways, J.P. Simaika & J. Ott (SUEC); 1 ď, 1 Ψ, Limietberg Nature Reserve, Bain’s Kloof, Witte River, 14.xi.2006, J.P. Simaika & J. Ott (SUEC); 2 ď, Western Cape, Villiersdorp Wild Flower Garden and Nature Reserve, 16.xi.2006, A.A. Johnson, J.P. Simaika & J. Ott (SUEC); 1 ď, without data (SAMC).
Observations: 1 ď, Western Cape, Kogelberg Nature Reserve, 15.xii.2003, M.J. Samways.
Unverified records: larval exuviae (cannot be identified to species), Keerom[s]berg, Worcester, i.1930, K.H. Barnard (Barnard 1937; not found in SAMC); larval exuviae (cannot be identified to species), Great Winterhoek Mountains, Tulbagh, i.1934, K.H. Barnard and H.G. Wood (Barnard 1937; not found in SAMC).
Range and ecology. This species, although localized, is widely distributed throughout the mountains of the Western Cape (Fig. 20). It occurs with the three other species in the mountains of the south-western Western Cape, but it is the only Syncordulia known from Table Mt and in a string of sites along the Langeberg range, east to the Eastern Cape border. It is associated with fast-flowing streams with large boulders and deposition pools, bordered by bushes or trees. It is mainly a summer species, with records from early November to late February.
description: Published as part of Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B., Samways, Michael J. & Simaika, John P., 2007, Two new relict Syncordulia species found during museum and field studies of threatened dragonflies in the Cape Floristic Region (Odonata: Corduliidae), pp. 19-34 in Zootaxa 1467 on pages 25-27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176602