Checklist of the dragonflies and damselflies from Guyana (Insecta: Odonata), with new records from the country

Natalia von Ellenrieder; Beatriz Willink Castro; Erik Svensson

doi:10.15560/13.2.2104

Check List 13(2): e19706, doi: 10.15560/13.2.2104

Checklist of the dragonflies and damselflies from Guyana (Insecta: Odonata), with new records from the country

Natalia von Ellenrieder^‡, Beatriz Willink Castro^§, Erik Svensson^§

‡ California Department of Food and Agriculture, United States of America§ Department of Biology, Evolutionary Ecology Unit, Lund University, Sweden

Corresponding author: Natalia von Ellenrieder ( natalia.von.ellenrieder@cdfa.ca.gov )

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: von Ellenrieder N, Willink Castro B, Svensson E (2017) Checklist of the dragonflies and damselflies from Guyana (Insecta: Odonata), with new records from the country. Check List 13(2): 2104. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.2.2104

Abstract

The first checklist of the odonates from Guyana is presented, including 46 new species records. Literature sources are provided for all species and for the new records full locality data, color scans or field photographs, taxonomic and biological notes, and maps for those species whose distribution range is increased considerably.

Keywords

species inventory; range extension; Guiana Shield; Kaieteur Plateau; Konawaruk watershed; Upper Berbice watershed; CEIBA; Karanambu; Iwokrama