Dragonflies of the Yungas (Odonata)
A Field Guide to the Species from Argentina
Faunistica, No. 67
[In English & Spanish]

By Natalia von Ellenrieder & Rosser W. Garrison
November 2007
Pensoft
Distributed By Coronet Books
ISBN: 9789546423054
116 pages, Illustrated, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 "
$49.50 Paper Original

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The Yungas are highly biodiverse cloud forests extending from Venezuela south through NW Argentina, and are considered one of the biodiversity 'hot spots' in South America. This bilingual (Spanish/English) pocket field guide, the first of its kind for any region in South America, is accompanied by 280 illustrations including detailed diagnostic drawings and numerous color photos of live dragonflies.

It covers all 102 species in 45 genera and 9 families found in the Argentine Yungas, representing over a third of all species known from the country. This guide provides a reliable and original means of identifying adult odonates for limnologists, ecologists, biologists, naturalists, amateurs and to anyone interested in the aquatic ecosystems of the cloud forests of the South American Andes, their biota and conservation.

Natalia von Ellenrieder is a researcher for the CONICET (Consejo de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas) at the Instituto de Bio y Geociencias in Salta, Argentina, and Rosser W. Garrison is an Insect biosystematist at the California Department of Food and Agriculture in the US.

Contents

Introduction
Anatomy
Behavior
Ecology and Habitats
Conservation
How to use this guide
Glossary of technical terms
Pseudostigmatidae
Calopterygidae
Lestidae
Megapodagrionidae
Protoneuridae
Coenagrionidae
Aeshnidae
Gomphidae
Corduliinae
Libellulinae
Acknowledgements
References
Index of Taxa

Entomology


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