Solving taxonomic and nomenclatural problems among the Neotropical species of the family Mantispidae (Insecta, Neuroptera) Author Pires Machado, Renato Jose 0000-0003-3155-3639 Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil Author Li, Hongyu https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0531-5775 Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany & Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China Author Ohl, Michael 0000-0002-3120-7915 Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany text Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 2025 2025-06-24 72 1 57 83 journal article 310604 10.3897/dez.72.148626 9a6fd688-753a-4ec7-b668-42ee7ab4d064 0625BBFD-D761-4A86-BA92-4E362BC2199B Zeugomantispa chlorotica (Navás) Fig. 2 Mantispilla chlorotica Navás, 1912: 200 . Lectotype : female ( ZSMC ) (here designated). Type locality: Paraguay : San Bernardino . Notes. The status of this species is very similar to the previous one. It was described by Navás (1912) from San Bernardino, Paraguay , but the number of specimens used for the description is not clear ( Ohl 2004 ). In this sense, we are herein designating the female from ZSMC , the sole specimen found here, as the lectotype . After the original description, the species was listed in Mantispa by Penny (1977) and Ohl (2004) , and more recently transferred to Zeugomantispa by Snyman et al. (2018) without any justification. Herein after analyzing the lectotype we reached the same conclusion, that this species has all the diagnostic characters of Z. virescens (Rambur) . In this sense, we are herein synonymizing Mantispilla chlorotica Navás, 1912 under Zeugomantispa virescens ( Rambur, 1842 ) (new synonym). Figure 2. Mantispilla chlorotica Navás 1912 , lectotype, female. A – C. Habitus photo, dorsal and lateral views; D. Head, frontal view; E. Labels.