Purenleon fernandezi Miller & Stange 2014

Machado, Renato Jose Pires & Tavares, Leon Gustavo de Miranda, 2020, Notes on the Brazilian species of Purenleon Stange (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), with description of two new species, Insect Systematics & Evolution 51 (1), pp. 62-80 : 70

Purenleon fernandezi Miller & Stange 2014

For a detailed description see Miller & Stange (2014)

Remarks. Purenleon fernandezi was just recently described from Venezuela and Trinidad, and together with P. tibialis Miller & Stange and the two new species described below form the tibialis group ( Miller & Stange 2014). The records presented here greatly expand the distribution of P. fernandezi towards the Brazilian northeast, including the easternmost record of the genus, in Rio Grande do Norte state ( Fig. 11 ). The Brazilian specimens were all dissected and both male and female present the same pattern of P. fernandezi , despite the disruptive distance between the new records and the previous ones. Besides the three specimens mentioned below, another female from Ceará state was also studied here; externally it is very similar to P. fernandezi but the terminalia is somewhat different (do not present the lateral expansions on the sternite VIII). This specimen could be a new species or maybe only a variation of P. fernandezi , but no further conclusions can be made until a larger series can be studied.

Material examined. ( 1♂, 3♀): BRAZIL: CEARÁ: Ubajara , Parque Nacional de Ubajara, Posto do ICMBio, 04 ⁰05’57”S– 41 ⁰42’34”W, 10–11.x.2013, arm luminosa, J.T. Câmara, A.A.T. Sousa, G.A. Reis ( 1♂, 2♀ – CZMA) ; RIO GRANDE DO NORTE: São Tomé, 19.xi.2007, Sousa, T.V.C ( 1♀ – UFBA). Specimen similar to P. fernadezi : BRAZIL: CEARÁ: Ubajara , Parque Nacional Serra Grande, cachoeira do Cafundó, 03°50’02”S – 40°54’07”W, 22–28.x.2011, armadilha luminosa, Silva-Neto, A.M. ( 1♀ – UFBA) .

Figures

Fig.11. Distribution map of the species of Purenleon Stange recorded to Brazil. Map shows the records presented here and previously reported.