An investigation of odonate communities within Wadi Sayq, Dhofar Province, Oman (Insecta: Odonata)

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Section: Herpetofauna Of Wadi Sayq Omanmentioning

confidence: 76%

An inventory of herpetofauna from Wadi Sayq, Dhofar, Oman

Ball

Borrell

2016

“…We have recorded each of them except T. tillarga. Tholymis tillarga was added to the Dhofar and Oman lists by Ball (2014), with a record of a male and an ovipositing female in Wadi Sayq, which is close to the Yemeni border, though no ID evidence was presented. Lambret et al (2017) recorded T. tillarga, a record of two individuals on 11 November 2010, at a different site from Ball's (2014), but presented no evidence except "observed at close distance".…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Tholymis tillarga was added to the Dhofar and Oman lists by Ball (2014), with a record of a male and an ovipositing female in Wadi Sayq, which is close to the Yemeni border, though no ID evidence was presented. Lambret et al (2017) recorded T. tillarga, a record of two individuals on 11 November 2010, at a different site from Ball's (2014), but presented no evidence except "observed at close distance". T. tillarga is apparently a migrant (Lambret et al 2017), occurs in India and Africa, and is crepuscular (Subramanian 2009, Djikstra & Clausnitzer 2014 in the adjacent stream in spite of visible pollution.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We have treated van der Weide & Kalkman's (2008) two locations in 'Wadi' (Arabic: valley) Ash Shuwaymiyyah as a single site (in our Dry Slopes), their three locations at Ain Hamran (Monsoon Slopes) as a single site and their Wadi Hanna (Monsoon Slopes) as a single site. Ball's (2014;Ball et al 2015) 11 collection sites along Wadi Sayq in southwestern Dhofar have been treated as two sites: his sites A-H (Monsoon Slopes) and I-K (Coastal Plains). We have treated Schneider & Ikemeyer's (2016) sites in Wadi Darbat as a single site (Monsoon Slopes) and Lambret et al's (2017) 'Locations' 52, 58 and 69 (each divided into two 'sites' by them) as single sites (52 in our Northern Desert and 58 and 69 in Coastal Plains).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Odonata (Insecta) of Dhofar, southern Oman

Cowan

2018

The Dhofar governorate of Oman (‘Dhofar’) is largely desert with a mainly arid climate. It contains an Afrotropical escarpment region influenced by monsoon precipitation. We summarise published records of odonates for Dhofar, organised by four natural regions, present our unpublished photographic records for 23 sites according to these regions and produce a Dhofar apparent-status statement for most odonate species. Records for the regionally Endangered Urothemis thomasi and regionally Endangered Acisoma variegatum and regionally Least Concern Paragomphus sinaiticus are discussed.

“…Schneider & Dumont (1997 presented their new records, listed all odonate specimens in the holdings of the Oman Natural History Museum (Muscat), and gave an annotated checklist of the 40 species of odonates then known for Oman. Four more species have been identified from Oman since then: Ischnura fountaineae, I. nursei and Orthetrum abbotti in the north Franković 2012;Kunz 2015) and Tholymis tillarga in the far south in Dhofar governorate (Ball 2014). Weide & Kalkman (2008) included records (sight, specimens, photos) for northern and central Oman, 14-20 September and3-4 October 2002.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

<B>The Odonata (Insecta) of northern and central Oman</B>

Cowan

2017

C omm u n fi c a ft fi o n T h e O d o n a ft a ( I n s e c ft a ) o f n o r ft h e r n a n d c e n ft r a fl Om a n E fl a fi n e M . C ow a n & P e ft e r J . C ow a n 2 6 O c ft o b e r 2 0 1 7 | V o fl . 9 | N o . 1 0 | P p . 1 0 7 7 6 -1 0 7 9 1 1 0 . 1 1 6 0 9 / j o ft . 3 2 3 0 . 9 . 1 0 . 1 0 7 7 6 -1 0 7 9 1 T h r e a ft e n e d T a x a T h e J o u r n a fl o f T h r e a ft e n e d T a x a fi s d e d fi c a ft e d ft o b u fi fl d fi n g e v fi d e n c e f o r c o n s e r v a fi o n g fl o b a fl fl y b y p u b fl fi s h fi n g p e e r -r e v fi ew e d a r fi c fl e s o n fl fi n e e v e r y m o n ft h a ft a r e a s o n a b fl y r a p fi d r a ft e a ft www . ft h r e a ft e n e d ft a x a . o r g. A fl fl a r fi c fl e s p u b fl fi s h e d fi n J o T T a r e r e g fi s ft e r e d u n d e r C r e a fi v e C omm o n s A ft r fi b u fi o n 4 . 0 I n ft e r n a fi o n a fl L fi c e n s e u n fl e s s o ft h e rw fi s e m e n fi o n e d . J o T T a fl fl ow s u n r e s ft r fi c ft e d u s e o f a r fi c fl e s fi n a n y m e d fi um , r e p r o d u c fi o n , a n d d fi s ft r fi b u fi o n b y p r o v fi d fi n g a d e q u a ft e c r e d fi ft ft o ft h e a u ft h o r s a n d ft h e s o u r c e o f p u b fl fi c a fi o n .O P E N A C C E S S P a r ft n e r www . ft h r e a ft e n e d ft a x a . o r g I S S N 0 9 7 4 -7 9 0 7 ( O n fl fi n e ) | I S S N 0 9 7 4 -7 8 9 3 ( P r fi n ft ) Funding: None. Competing interests:The authors declare no competing interests.Author Details: Elaine M. Cowan is an honorary senior lecturer and is interested in odonates. Peter J. Cowan is an arid regions wildlife specialist and associate professor.Author contribution: EMC was primarily responsible for photography, record keeping and identification. PJC was primarily responsible for preparation of the manuscript. Both authors were active locating odonates in the field.