Gatzara Navás, 1915

Zheng, Yuchen, Hayashi, Fumio, Price, Benjamin W. & Liu, Xingyue, 2022, Unveiling the Evolutionary History of a Puzzling Antlion Genus Gatzara Navás (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae: Dendroleontinae) Based on Systematic Revision,, Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (3), pp. 1-22 : 6

Genus Gatzara Navás, 1915

Gatzara Navás 1915: 385 ; Navás 1935: 47; Miller et al. 1999: 50; Stange et al. 2003: 76; Stange 2004: 90; Wang et al. 2012: 34 ; Sekimoto 2014: 34; Yang et al. 2018: 63; Wang et al. 2018: 55. Machado et al. 2019: 443.

Type Species: Gatzara jubilaea Navás 1915: 386 (original designation and monotypy).

Included Species: Gatzara benaci Navás 1935 ; Gatzara jubilaea Navás 1915 ; Gatzara nigrivena Wang inWang et al. 2012.

Diagnosis. Body pale brown with many black markings. Antennae black on intumescent part. Pronotum longer than wide, medially with a black stripe. Legs long and slender; tarsi with thickened setal brush; pretarsal claws slightly curved, protruded basally. Wings generally transparent, with scattered minute dark brown markings; costal crossveins simple; hind wing poststigmal area with few markings; anterior Banksian line present. Female anterior branch of gonocoxites 8 elongate, twice as long as posterior branch of gonocoxites 8, or even longer; gonapophyses 8 distinctly sclerotized ( Fig. 11A,B ).

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Fig. 11. Female genitalia of Gatzara kpp. and Nepsalus kpp. (A) G. jubilaea; (B) G. nigrivena; (C) N. caelestis; (D) N. chikuni kp. n.; (;) N. decorillus; (F) N. decorosus; (G) N. petrophilus; (H) N. jezoensis. (1) lateral view;(2) ventral view.Abbreviationk: ect& ectoproct& gx& gonocoxitek& agx& anterior gonocoxitek& pgx& pokterior gonocoxitek& gp& gonapophykek& pp& pregenital plate.