Thecagaster charpentieri iranica ssp. nov. - description of the exuviae and the imagines (Odonata: Cordulegastridae) Author Schneider, Thomas Arnold-Knoblauch-Ring 76, 14109 Berlin-Wannsee, Germany & Ehrenamtlicher Mitarbeiter Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany Author Müller, Ole Birkenweg 6 d, 15306 Libbenichen, Germany Author Ikemeyer, Dietmar Billerbecker Str. 6, 48329 Havixbeck, Germany Author Vierstraete, Andy Department of Biology, University of Gent, 9000 Gent, Belgium Author Schneider, Elias Arnold-Knoblauch-Ring 76, 14109 Berlin-Wannsee, Germany text Zootaxa 2026 2026-01-07 5741 3 495 518 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5741.3.4 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5741.3.4 1175-5326 19165335 5C0EB71C-5D31-45DD-8294-045F76F636DD

TABLE 3. Data sets of the morphological characteristics of the exuviae of Thecagaster c. iranica and Thecagaster c. charpentieri (dimensions in mm, without differentiation by sex, sample sizes in brackets).

	Thecagaster c. iranica this study (N=No.)	Thecagaster c. charpentieri Müller et al. 2025 (N=No.)
tl—total length	44.5–51.5 (11)	37.5–41.7 (3)
al—abdomen length	31.4–33.5 (5)	23.0–27.4 (4)
hwl—wing case length	9.8–11.7 (5)	8.3–10.2 (4)
aw—abdomen width	7.5–8.6 (5)	7.4–8.0 (4)
cl—cerci length	1.1–1.3 (5)	1.0–1.2 (4)
cw—cerci width	0.4–0.6 (5)	0.4–0.5 (4)
pl—paraproct length	3.7–4.0 (5)	2.6–3.0 (4)
el—epiproct length	3.8–4.4 (5)	2.3–3.3 (4)
pel—projection epiproct length	0.7–0.8 (3)	0.6–0.7 (3)
gl—gynapophyses length	2.2–2.3 (2)	2.0 (1)
gw—gynapophyses width	1.7–1.9 (2)	1.6 (1)
fl—femur foreleg length	4.8–5.8 (5)	4.1–5.4 (3)
til—tibia foreleg length	6.2–7.5 (5)	5.5–6.1 (3)
tal—tarsus foreleg length	3.3–3.9 (5)	2.7–2.9 (2)
hw—head width	9.8–10.3 (5)	7.5–8.5 (3)
ml—mentum length	7.5–8.3 (4)	6.0–7.0 (3)
mbw—mentum width basal	2.5–3.0 (4)	2.2–2.5 (3)
mdw—mentum width distal	7.0–8.4 (4)	5.9–7.2 (3)