Common Flatwing (Austroargiolestes icteromelas)

Common Flatwing (Austroargiolestes icteromelas)

Inhabits streams and rivers, including those that dry to pools

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• Megapodagrionidae: Key couplet 1 of 31

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• ○ Smaller, with abdomen shorter than 42 mm, hindwings shorter than 35 mm
  ● Fewer than 27 postnodals

• Megapodagrionidae: Key couplet 2 of 31

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• ● Generally three or more cells, rarely two in discoidal field between discoidal cell and level of subnodus
  ● Male superior anal appendages with ventral spur
  
  ⇒ genus: Austroargiolestes

• Megapodagrionidae: Key couplet 3 of 31

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• ● Anterior frons, clypeus and labrum dark greenish brown to black

• Megapodagrionidae: Key couplet 6 of 31

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• ● Median part to much of front of synthorax dark brown to black with pale to yellowish brown humeral stripe on each side, sometimes pruinescent

• Megapodagrionidae: Key couplet 7 of 31

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• ● Humeral stripe not widened at upper end

• Megapodagrionidae: Key couplet 9 of 31

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• ● Superior anal appendages with ventral spur not visible from above

• Megapodagrionidae: Key couplet 12 of 31

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• ● Distal end of inner marginal ridge of superior appendages rounded, or continuing into inner ridge of ventral spur

• Megapodagrionidae: Key couplet 13 of 31

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• ● Inferior anal appendages, viewed from below, almost triangular with sharply pointed tips
  
  ⇒ species: Common Flatwing (Austroargiolestes icteromelas)

• Megapodagrionidae: Key couplet 14 of 31

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• ● Median part to much of front of synthorax dark brown to black, with pale to red-brown humeral stripe on each side, sometimes pruinescent

• Megapodagrionidae: Key couplet 15 of 31

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• ● Pale stripe in front of mesopleural suture constricted near upper end, then broadened at tip, not obscured by pruinescence

• Megapodagrionidae: Key couplet 17 of 31

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• ● Outer face of mandible largely pale

• Megapodagrionidae: Key couplet 18 of 31

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• ● Uppermost point of mesanepisternal part of humeral stripe at mesopleural suture, the upper part of stripe thus appearing acutely tapered
  ● Sometimes obscured by pruinescence

• Megapodagrionidae: Key couplet 19 of 31

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• ● Black patch on metepimeron extending well beyond half-way down upper segment of metapleural suture, or separated from it by long gently tapering white stripe

• Megapodagrionidae: Key couplet 20 of 31

• ○ Ratio between length of hindwing and length of metafemur approximately 5.0 (range 4.5 to 5.5)
  ○ Front of synthorax never strongly pruinescent
  
  ⇒ species: Common Flatwing (Austroargiolestes icteromelas)