Leptomantispa Hoffman, 2002

Ardila-Camacho, Adrian & García, Alexander, 2015, Mantidflies of Colombia (Neuroptera, Mantispidae), Zootaxa 3937 (3), pp. 401-455 : 443

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3937.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B50FB13D-0A8C-47D1-8616-9BA239E72C6D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5633465

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scientific name

Leptomantispa Hoffman, 2002
status

 

Leptomantispa Hoffman, 2002 View in CoL View at ENA

Leptomantispa View in CoL currently includes six species distributed from southwestern Canada to northern Argentina, including the Antilles ( Hoffman 2002; Machado & Rafael 2010). In this work we registered one new species, L. hoffmani View in CoL .

The knowledge of biology of the genus is almost limited to collection reports: adults have been found at light traps near foliage ( Hoffman 2002) or in the canopies of primary forest ( Machado & Rafael 2007). In North America, they are seemingly both diurnal and nocturnal and they have been collected using Malaise traps and mercury vapor traps in pine woods ( Cannings & Cannings 2006). The first larval instar of L. pulchella View in CoL is considered a boarder ( Hoffman 2002), and it has been found in association with 20 spider species belonging to 15 genera in the families Philodromidae View in CoL , Aniphaenidae, Oxiopidae, Thomisidae View in CoL and Salticidae ( Hoffman & Bruswein 1989) View in CoL .

Cannings, R. A. & Cannings, S. G. (2006) The Mantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) of Canada, with notes on morphology, ecology, and distribution. The Canadian Entomologist, 138, 531 - 544. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.4039 / n 06 - 806

Hoffman, K. M. & Brushwein, J. R. (1989) Species of spiders (Araneae) associated with the immature stages of Mantispa pulchella (Neuroptera: Mantispidae). Journal of Arachnology, 17, 7 - 14.

Hoffman, K. M. (2002) Family Mantispidae. In Penny, N. D. (ed.), A guide to the lacewings (Neuroptera) of Costa Rica. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 53 (12), 251 - 275.

Machado, R. J. P. & Rafael, J. A. (2007) A new species of Mantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) from Central Amazonia, Brazil. Zootaxa, 1530, 37 - 40.

Machado, R. J. P. & Rafael, J. A. (2010) Taxonomy of the Brazilian species previously placed in Mantispa Illiger, 1798 (Neuroptera: Mantispidae), with the description of three new species. Zootaxa, 2454, 3 - 59.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Neuroptera

Family

Mantispidae

SubFamily

Mantispinae