TY  - GEN
A1  - Amaya-Perilla, Catalina
A1  - Marinov, Milen
A1  - Holwell, Gregory
A1  - Varsani, Arvind
A1  - Stainton, Daisy
A1  - Kraberger, Simona
A1  - Dayaram, Anisha
A1  - Curtis, Nathan
A1  - Cruickshank, Robert
A1  - Paterson, Adrian
T1  - Comparative study of the Chatham Islands Odonata : 2. Morphometric and molecular comparison between Xanthocnemis tuanuii Rowe, 1981 and X. zealandica (McLachlan, 1873) ; with notes on the taxonomic position of Xanthocnemis sinclairi Rowe, 1987
(Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae)
T2  - International Dragonfly Fund : Report
N2  - We compared Chatham Island endemic species Xanthocnemis tuanuii to its congenerics from the New Zealand South Island: X. zealandica (newly collected specimens)and X. sinclairi (type specimens plus newly collected material). Two independent tests were performed –geometric morphometrics and molecular. Both analyses were consistent in supporting the status of X. tuanuiias a good species. Species differed statistically in the following morphological traits: head (dorsal view), male appendages (dorsal, lateral, posterior and ventral views), thorax (dorsal view), and penis (dorsal and lateral view). In addition to the original diagnostic features (mainly shape of the male superior appendages), a new morphological character is suggested here which reliably distinguishes the species based on the shape of the inferior appendages.  There was no statistical support for the species status of X. sinclairi. The only feature re-ported as diagnostic (lower lobe of male superior appendages) was found to be variable and insufficient to warrant the previously proposed taxonomic rank for X. sinclairi. Molecular analysis of specimens showing identical appendages to the X. sinclairi holotype grouped them with X. zealandica specimens. Therefore X. sinclairi is synonymised with X. zealandica.
T3  - IDF-Report : newsletter of the International Dragonfly Fund - 75 
KW  - Chatham Island
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - South Island
KW  - Geometric morphometrics
KW  - Xanthocnemis
KW  - phylogeny
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/34480
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-344803
SP  - 1
EP  - 27
PB  - International Dragonfly Fund e.V.
CY  - Zerf, Germany
ER  -