Leptomantispa Hoffman, 2002

MACHADO, RENATO JOSÉ PIRES & RAFAEL, JOSÉ ALBERTINO, 2010, Taxonomy of the Brazilian species previously placed in Mantispa Illiger, 1798 (Neuroptera: Mantispidae), with the description of three new species, Zootaxa 2454 (1), pp. 1-61 : 37

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2454.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10537499
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FE87CD-5C6D-FFBE-FF38-FE27FB47FCE2
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Leptomantispa Hoffman, 2002
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Leptomantispa Hoffman, 2002 View in CoL View at ENA

Leptomantispa Hoffman, 2002: 264 View in CoL ; Ohl 2004: 176 (cat.). Type species: Mantispilla pulchella Banks, 1912: 179 View in CoL .

Diagnosis: Pronotum completely covered by setae (best seen in lateral view), setae arising directly from the surface. Male ectoproct with ventromedial lobe not sclerotized. Gonarcal membrane without scales. Male with pores at tergites IV and V (most specimens with pores at tergite III, too). Spermatheca widening distally.

Hoffman (2002) stated that there were eight species in the genus but listed only three. L. pulchella (Banks, 1912) is found from Canada to Costa Rica ( Cannings & Cannings 2006), remaing two species ( L. chaos Hoffman, 2002 and L. nymphe Hoffman, 2002 ) are Neotropical and found in Brazil. Machado & Rafael (2007) described a fourth species of the genus, L. catarinae , until now found only in Brazil. More two species are treated here: L. ariasi (Penny, 1982) n. comb and L. axillaris (Navás, 1908) n. comb.