Nampista Navas

Snyman, Louwtjie P., Ohl, Michael, Mansell, Mervyn W. & Scholtz, Clarke H., 2012, A revision and key to the genera of Afrotropical Mantispidae (Neuropterida, Neuroptera), with the description of a new genus, ZooKeys 184, pp. 67-93 : 79

Genus Nampista Navas

Nampista Navás, 1914: 97. Type species Nampista speciosa Navás, 1914: 98 (= Mantispa auriventris Guérin-Méneville 1838: 202), by monotypy

Forciada Kozhanchikov, 1949: 355. Type species: Forciada relicta Kozhanchikov, 1949: 356 (= Mantispa auriventris Guérin-Méneville), by monotypy

Bucharispa Martynov, 1936: 437. Name unavailable, no type species was assigned to the genus.

Distribution.

Predominantly a Palaearctic genus In the Afrotropics the genus is found only in the countries bordering the Arabian Peninsula where it is represented by three species ( Handschin 1960b, Ohl 2009).

Diagnosis.

The only Afrotropical genus close to Nampista is Pseudoclimaciella . It can easily be distinguished from Pseudoclimaciella by the following characteristics: Flagellomeres asymmetrically lamellate (Fig. 4d); deeply incised ventrally. Prothorax shorter than pterothorax (Fig. 3f). The basal half of the forewings always pigmented; the majority of the basal half of the hind wings clear (Fig. 2e).

Description.

Revised by Ohl (2009)