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

Genus Eumantispa Okamoto

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

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

Diagnosis ( Fig. 7 ): Eumantispa can be distinguished from all other Oriental and Palearctic genera by the subdivision of the radial cells ( Fig. 7a and b ). 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).

Figures

FIGURE 7. Eumantispa harmandi (a) habitus [i. subdivided radial cells] (c) prothorax in dorsal view (e) prothorax in lateral view; Eumantispa fuscata (b) habitus [i. subdivided radial cells] (d) prothorax in dorsal view (f) prothorax in lateral view.