Mantidflies of Colombia (Neuroptera, Mantispidae)
Author
Ardila-Camacho, Adrian
Author
García, Alexander
text
Zootaxa
2015
3937
3
401
455
journal article
41721
10.11646/zootaxa.3937.3.1
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1175-5326
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Zeugomantispa minuta
(Fabricius, 1775)
(
Fig. 26
, Map 8)
Mantis minuta
Fabricius, 1775: 278
.
Holotype
(or
Syntypes
):
type
locality unknown, sex unknown (BMNH), not studied.
Mantis lilliputiana
Olivier, 1797
;
Erichson 1839
: 172
(syn.);
Penny 1982b
: 459
(syn.).
Mantispa flavomaculata
Latreille, 1805
;
Erichson 1839
: 172
(syn.);
Penny 1982b
: 459
(syn.).
Mantis viridula
Houttuyn
in Stoll, 1813;
Ohl 2004
: 206
(syn.).
Rhaphidia margaritacea
Fischer
von Waldheim, 1834;
Penny 1982b
: 459
(syn.).
Mantispa viridis
Walker, 1853
;
Hoffman 2002
: 274
(syn.).
Mantispa gulosa
Taylor, 1862
; Penny
et al.
1997: 75 (syn.).
Mantispa brevicollis
Banks
in
Baker
, 1905; Penny
et al
. 1997: 75 (syn.).
Mantispa pallescens
Navás, 1914
;
Penny 1982b
: 459
(syn.).
Mantispilla flavescens
Navás, 1914
;
Penny 1982b
: 459
(syn.).
Mantispilla trichostigma
Navás, 1921
;
Penny 1982b
: 459
(syn.).
Mantispilla viridata
Navás, 1924
;
Hoffman 2002
: 274
(syn.).
Mantispilla rubricata
Navás, 1924
;
Hoffman 2002
: 274
(syn.).
Mantispilla flavicornis
Navás, 1930
;
Hoffman 2002
: 274
(syn.).
Zeugomantispa minuta
;
Hoffman 2002
: 273
(diag.);
Ohl 2004
: 206
(cat.);
Reynoso-Velasco & Contreras-Ramos 2008
: 710
(list.).
Specimens examined.
Colombia
: Bolívar:
Sta.
Catalina, El Ceibal
,
20 m
,
X.1999
, E. Flórez, mercury light trap (
2 ♂
‒ICN);
Casanare:
Yopal, Corregimiento Tilodirán,
05°08’57,32’’N
–
72°12’11,55’’W
,
350 m
,
05.I.2010
, G. Maldonado, manual collection over foliage (1 ♀‒UNAB);
Cundinamarca:
Puerto Salgar, Estación Ecopetrol,
150 m
, D. Bernal (1 ♀—ANDES-E-DIB00024);
Magdalena:
Santa
Marta
, Cerro la Llorona,
11°14’50’’N
–
74°12’06’’W
,
2 m
,
01.VIII.2010
, M. Mozo (
1 ♂
—UNAB);
Meta
: Restrepo
, la Cosmopolitana,
04°09’N
–
73°09’W
,
550 m
,
03.XI.2007
, L. Rodríguez (
1 ♂
—MUD).
Diagnosis.
Body mostly light green; wings hyaline with green pterostigma, venation predominantly green, with brown pigmentation on the junctions; forewing with 1AA elliptical, aa-ap vein, almost parallel to the posterior wing margin (
Hoffman 2002
). Male abdomen with intertergal membrane between the tergites III‒V invaginated, bilobed, each lobe with a single pore transversely elongated.
Remarks.
Larval stages of
Z. minuta
were described by Hoffman & Brushwein (1992), the first of them is considered an obligate egg-sac penetrator (
Redborg & MacLeod 1985
). This species has been found in association with egg-sacs of 29 spider species in 26 genera, belonging to the families
Agelenidae
,
Araneidae
,
Anyphaenidae
,
Clubionidae
,
Corinnidae
,
Ctenidae
,
Lycosidae
,
Oxyopidae
,
Philodromidae
,
Pisauridae
,
Salticidae
,
Tetragnathidae
, Therididae,
Thomisidae
and
Uloboridae
. In addition, the emergence of 2‒
4
adults from the same sac was noted (Brushwein
et al.
1992).
Valerio (1971)
reported this species as
M. viridis
, and has an association with the webbuilding spider
Achaearanea tepidariorum
(Koch) (Araneidae)
.
Distribution.
Argentina
,
Belize
,
Colombia
,
Costa Rica
,
Cuba
,
Ecuador
,
El Salvador
,
Guatemala
,
Honduras
, Hispaniola,
Mexico
,
Nicaragua
,
Panama
,
Peru
,
Suriname
,
United States
,
Uruguay
,
Venezuela
.