Glenurus peculiaris (Walker)

Stange, Lionel A. & uary, Jan, 2010, Preliminary report on the Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera) of Paraguay, Insecta Mundi 2010 (114), pp. 1-14 : 5

6. Glenurus peculiaris (Walker)

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Myrmeleon peculiaris Walker 1860: 194 . Holotype female, Brazil (BMNH)

= Glenurus brasiliensis Navás 1920b: 416 , figure 2 (hind wing) (after Stange 2004: 178). Lectotype female, Jaragua, Brazil (not located); lectoparatype female, S. Paulo, 1919, Barbellini (MZBS), designated by Navás 1923b: 771.

Further description. Costa Lima 1943: 99, figure 73 (wings); Markl 1954: 245, figure 83 (wings).

Known distribution. Argentina; Brazil; British Guiana; Paraguay; Surinam.

Diagnosis. Adult: Antennal fossa separated from ocular rim by less than greatest width of pedicel; mid leg as long or longer than fore leg; male ectoproct without postventral lobe; pretarsal claws not capable of closing against setal brush; all setae tapered; posterior gonapophysis of female terminalia weakly produced as a swelling; hind basitarsus longer than distal tarsomere. Mesoscutellum with moderately long, white setae laterally near posterior margin, some of which are longer than postnotum. Coloration: Pterothoracic pleura dark brown above, pale brown below; apical one-fifth of fore wing and hind wing with predominant brown suffusion in marked contrast to basal one-fifth; fore wing cross veins between CuP+lA and hind margin not margined except sometimes toward cubital fork (Figure 5); scape light brown to dark brown on both anterior and posterior surfaces. Larva: Mandible with two teeth; labial palpus 2- segmented; mesothoracic scoli with posterior pair longer than wide, about three times larger than anterior pair which are about equal in size to metathoracic scoli; abdominal segments I-VIII with lateral scoli, first pair about as long as wide, rest smaller; abdominal segment IX about as long as wide.

Material studied. PARAGUAY. Paraguarí: Sapucay, II,1900, Foster (1f, FSCA)