Eumantispa Okamoto

Snyman, Louwrens P., Sole, Catherine L. & Ohl, Michael, 2018, A revision of and keys to the genera of the Mantispinae of the Oriental and Palearctic regions (Neuroptera: Mantispidae), Zootaxa 4450 (5), pp. 501-549 : 511-512

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scientific name	Eumantispa Okamoto
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Genus Eumantispa Okamoto View in CoL View at ENA

Eumantispa Okamoto, 1910 View in CoL . Type species: Mаntispа suzukii Okamoto, 1910 (as " Mаntispа suzukii Mats. [sic]") (= Mаntispа hаrmаndi Navás, 1909 View in CoL [" 1908–1909 "]), by original designation. Stenispа Navás, 1914a . Type species: Eumаntispа hypogаstricа Navás, 1914a View in CoL , by monotypy. A junior homonym of Stenispа Baly, 1858 (Insecta: Coleoptera View in CoL : Chrysomelidae View in CoL ).

Distribution: Palearctic, Oriental, and Australasian: Far eastern USSR, Japan, northeastern India to New Guinea.

Diagnosis ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 ): Eumantispa can be distinguished from all other Oriental and Palearctic genera by the subdivision of the radial cells ( Fig. 7a and b View FIGURE 7 ). To our knowledge this feature is not found in any other mantispine genus.

Notes: The Eumantispa of China were reviewed by Yang & Liu (2010). A new species, E. pseudoharmandi ,

was described. The figures of the newly described species erroneously refer to E. paraharmandi and was corrected in a subsequent publication (Yang & Liu 2011). E. pseudoharmandi is regarded as the correct name. The species resembles quite a number of unidentified specimens found in the collections from the various museums from outside China. It is therefore possible that E. pseudoharmandi is a synonym of a species already described and should be investigated (see Appendix). Eumantispa harmandi has been associated with several species of Agelenidae spiders and one Sparassidae species (Hirata & Ishii 1995). The first instar larvae are known to board spiders; they attach to the carapace of the spider (Hirata & Ishii 1995; Hirata 1999).