Agnophilogenia Monotis, New Genus and Species of Dragonfly from Humid Northwestern Ecuador (Odonata: Megapodagrioninae)

Resumen

In April of this year I received from the collector, Mr. David Laddey, Esq., a few envelopes of dragonflies collected at La Lorena, Santa Domingo de Los Colorados, Prov. Pichincha, Ecuador. This is at a low elevation, 550 meters, in the humid northwestern corner of Ecuador. It is an extension into the northwestern corner of Ecuador of the southernmost tip of the very humid area that forms the west coast of Colombia. In Ecuador at least, it is very malarious. It rains so nearly continuously that professional collectors cannot make even pin money. It is the occasional new or inexperienced collector that ventures into Santo Domingo de Los Colorados and who returns with prizes but not in sufficient quantity to get his accounts out of the red. Among fifty specimens or less brought out by Laddey were a new Perilestes (one male), a new Miocora (one male), the new genus to be described postea (one female), a short series of males of Calvert‗s Neocordulia longipollex known previously from one male and a small series of what is probably a new Heteragrion. In the two weeks‗ trip the collector found only a few hours of sunshine. This particular coastal strip from Panama south to northwestern Ecuador is so wet and malarial that its fauna is one of the least known in South America. It is full of prizes. It awaits the collector immune to its diseases and depressing weather.