Biodiversity of the Neuropterida (Insecta: Neuroptera, Megaloptera, and Raphidioptera)

Oswald, John D.; Machado, Renato Jose Pires

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“…The holotype and one female paratype, both dissected, are deposited at the Colección Nacional de Insectos (CNIN) of the Instituto de Biología, UNAM, Mexico City; one male (undissected) and one female (dissected) paratype will be deposited at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (NMNH), Washington, D.C. The Neuropterida species of the World platform (Oswald 2018) was helpful to track down all known Wesmaelius species, whose descriptions were compared in order to rule out synonymy. The key was constructed based on Klimaszewski and Kevan (1987a) and descriptions of other Wesmaelius (Kimminsia) species in the New World: Wesmaelius (K.) longipennis (Banks) from Mexico (Banks 1920, Carpenter 1940), and Wesmaelius (K.) magnus (Kimmins) from Guatemala (Kimmins 1928, Monserrat 1998).…”

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“…It includes 65 valid species worldwide (Zhao et al 2017, Oswald 2018). Thirteen species are known from the United States and Canada, with one more from the south-western United States and Mexico and one from Guatemala, the latter with the southernmost distribution for the genus in the New World (Makarkin 1996, Monserrat 1998, Oswald 2018). Wesmaelius (Kimminsia) longipennis (Banks) is known from western (California) and south-western (Texas) United States (Klimaszewski and Kevan 1987a, Oswald 2018), as well as from the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Durango, and Morelos (Oswald et al 2002), and is the only previously known species in Mexico.…”

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“…Thirteen species are known from the United States and Canada, with one more from the south-western United States and Mexico and one from Guatemala, the latter with the southernmost distribution for the genus in the New World (Makarkin 1996, Monserrat 1998, Oswald 2018). Wesmaelius (Kimminsia) longipennis (Banks) is known from western (California) and south-western (Texas) United States (Klimaszewski and Kevan 1987a, Oswald 2018), as well as from the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Durango, and Morelos (Oswald et al 2002), and is the only previously known species in Mexico. The New World species were treated more recently by Klimaszewski and Kevan (1987a, b), who revised the species from Alaska and Canada, and diagnosed the two subgenera proposed by Aspöck et al (1980), Kimminsia Killington and Wesmaelius Krüger.…”

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A new species of Wesmaelius Krüger from Mexico, with a key to the New World species of the subgenus Kimminsia Killington (Neuroptera, Hemerobiidae)

Marquez-López

Contreras‐Ramos

2019

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Wesmaelius (Kimminsia) nanacamilpa Marquez & Contreras, sp. n., a brown lacewing from Tlaxcala state, Mexico is described and illustrated. This is the second recorded species of Wesmaelius from Mexico, and the third from Middle America. Males of the new species may be identified by parameres separate apically, styliform sclerites directed basally, as well as a rounded gonarcus with a short entoprocessus. Females may be distinguished from closely related species by a subgenital plate with the central plate broadly incised basally. There are now 16 species of Wesmaelius known from the New World.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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A new species of Wesmaelius Krüger from Mexico, with a key to the New World species of the subgenus Kimminsia Killington (Neuroptera, Hemerobiidae)

Marquez-López

Contreras‐Ramos

2019

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“…Ithonidae sensu stricto, Polystoechotidae and Rapismatidae (Winterton and Makarkin 2010). So far, Rapisma is the only extant ithonid genus that occurs in Asia, with distribution area primarily confined to the Oriental region, and it comprises 18 valid described species (Oswald 2017). However, 12 Rapisma species are known respectively from a single specimen, suggesting the rareness of this genus.…”

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A review of the montane lacewing genus Rapisma McLachlan (Neuroptera, Ithonidae) from China, with description of two new species

Liu¹

2017

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The genus Rapisma McLachlan, 1866 (Insecta: Neuroptera: Ithonidae) is a rare and poorly known lacewing group endemic to Asia. Here I present a revision of the Rapisma species from China, with description of two new species, namely Rapisma changqingensis sp. n. and Rapisma chikuni sp. n. The Chinese Rapisma now comprises five species that respectively belong to two monophyletic species groups. Rapisma changqingensis sp. n. represents the northernmost record of the genus, being distributed at the border of eastern Palaearctic and Oriental regions. Moreover, the homology of genital sclerites of Rapisma is also updated.

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Comparative study of sensilla and other tegumentary structures of Myrmeleontidae larvae (Insecta, Neuroptera)

Ramos

Monserrat

Contreras‐Ramos

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Journal of Morphology

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Antlion larvae have a complex tegumentary sensorial equipment. The sensilla and other kinds of larval tegumentary structures have been studied in 29 species of 18 genera within family Myrmeleontidae, all of them with certain degree of psammophilous lifestyle. The adaptations for such lifestyle are probably related to the evolutionary success of this lineage within Neuroptera. We identified eight types of sensory structures, six types of sensilla (excluding typical long bristles) and two other specialized tegumentary structures. Both sensilla and other types of structures that have been observed using scanning electron microscopy show similar patterns in terms of occurrence and density in all the studied species (with few exceptions). The sensilla identified are: coeloconica, placoidea, basiconica, trichodea type I, trichodea type II, and campaniformia. All these sensilla have mechano‐ or chemosensorial functions. Some regions of the larval body have been studied using SEM for the first time, such as the surface of the food canal, which bears sensilla coeloconica, and the abdominal segment X, that bears three types of sensilla: coeloconica, basiconica, and campaniformia. Sensilla placodea are newly reported on antlion larvae, being present on the mandibular base, pronotum, mentum, and cardum. Also, new locations of sensilla coeloconica (e.g., on rastra) and sensilla campaniformia (e.g., on odontoid processes) are noted. A novel porous texture with chemoreceptor function has been identified in the base of mandibles. A mechanism of dentate‐notched surfaces that anchor maxillae and mandible, reinforcing the food canal, is detailed. All these sensorial structures, in addition to ocular tubercles for light caption and their great muscular system, confer to these larvae an extraordinary predation capacity to success hunting and living in such harsh environments.

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Biodiversity of the Neuropterida (Insecta: Neuroptera, Megaloptera, and Raphidioptera)

Cited by 77 publications

References 115 publications

A new species of Wesmaelius Krüger from Mexico, with a key to the New World species of the subgenus Kimminsia Killington (Neuroptera, Hemerobiidae)

A new species of Wesmaelius Krüger from Mexico, with a key to the New World species of the subgenus Kimminsia Killington (Neuroptera, Hemerobiidae)

A review of the montane lacewing genus Rapisma McLachlan (Neuroptera, Ithonidae) from China, with description of two new species

Comparative study of sensilla and other tegumentary structures of Myrmeleontidae larvae (Insecta, Neuroptera)

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