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On the Generic Status of Tetragoneuria and Epicordulia (Odonata: Corduliidae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

E. M. Walker
Affiliation:
Royal Ontario Museum, University of Toronto, Ontario

Abstract

Three genera of Odonata, Epitheca, Tetragoneuria and Epicordulia, have previously been regarded as distinct. Analysis of adult characters, especially the venation and habit of oviposition, shows them to be congeneric, the name Epitheca being appropriate for the resulting combination. Larval morphology is consistent with this grouping.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1966

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