Dicromantispa moronei, ENGEL & GRIMALDI, 2007

ENGEL, MICHAEL S. & GRIMALDI, DAVID A., 2007, The Neuropterid Fauna of Dominican and Mexican Amber (Neuropterida: Megaloptera, Neuroptera), American Museum Novitates 3587, pp. 1-60 : 14

Dicromantispa moronei , new species figures 9 , 10

Mantispid sp.; Grimaldi, 1996: 93.

Mantispa sp. ; Poinar and Poinar, 1999: 130, fig.

129.

Mantispa sp. ; Poinar, 2006: 416.

DIAGNOSIS: Refer to diagnosis presented for D. electromexicana (above).

DESCRIPTION: Forewing length 14.5 mm; total body length 17.7 mm ( fig. 9 ); pronotum length 7.7 mm, width (median) 0.6 mm, width (anterior) 1.3 mm. Occipital margin of head absent. Antenna light brown; 29 flagellomeres; F2–28 each wider than long; F1 longer than wide and slightly longer than combined lengths of F2–3; F29 conical. Labial and maxiallary palp segments elongate and tapering at apices. Pronotum elongate (length approx. seven times maximum width), greatly expanded anteriorly; pubescence minute and extremely sparse; pronotum with light brown stripes along lateral posterior thirds; integument imbricate. Profemur with long, sharply pointed basal spine along inner margin, followed on outer margin by numerous short, pointed teeth intermixed with at least five intermediate length spines; basal, inner spine longest, slightly shorter than protarsus ( fig. 10 ); integument of outer surface verrucose, otherwise imbricate. Pretarsal claws with three inner teeth except propretarsus with single claw and no arolium. Forewing longer than abdomen; seven subcostal crossveins (c-sc); pterostigma elongate, expanded apically, without markings. Hindwing with single gradate series; CuP bending sharply toward 1A; CuP separat- ed from 1A at bend by extremely short crossvein (cup-a). Wing membrane hyaline.

Abdomen distended, apparently without markings.

HOLOTYPE: Female ; MACT-432 ( fig. 9 ), Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic.

ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet is a patronymic honoring Dott. Ettore Morone, Turin, Italy.

Figures

Fig. 9. Photomicrograph of holotype of Dicromantispa moronei, new species (MACT-432).

Fig. 10. Holotype of Dicromantispa moronei, new species (MACT-432), with details of foreleg enlarged.