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
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/392B0C11-FFD3-FFCA-A885-FD00FB0BD114
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Leptomantispa Hoffman, 2002
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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 .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Neuroptera
Family	Mantispidae
SubFamily	Mantispinae