New species and new distributional records of Neotropical Mantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera)

Abstract

The Neotropical fauna of Mantispidae is currently composed of 106 species. We provide new distributional records of Mantispidae from Colombia and Panama. Three new species are described, one in Symphrasinae from Colombia, and two in Mantispinae from Colombia and Panama. Haematomantispa nubeculosa (Navás, 1933) and Leptomantispa axillaris (Navás, 1908) are reported from Colombia for the first time, the former being the first record of the genus in the country. New locality records for other species previously known from Colombia are also given. For Panama, we report Anchieta fasciatella (Westwood, 1867) and Trichoscelia iridella (Westwood, 1867) for the first time, the former is herein newly transferred from Plega to Anchieta. Three names Mantispa confluens Navás, 1914, n. syn., Buyda apicata Navás, 1926, n. syn., and Mantispa neotropica Navás, 1933, n. syn., are here synonymized with Buyda phthisica (Gerstaecker, 1885). Updated keys for the genera of Mantispinae, and species of genera Trichoscelia, Buyda, and Climaciella from Colombia are included. With this new information, the known species richness of Mantispidae from Colombia increases from 21 to 26, and from 16 to 19 species in Panama.

Type specimens of Neuropterida in the Hope Entomological Collection, Oxford University Museum of Natural History

“…Nomenclature. The first use of the current combination was by Enderlein (1910: 359) [cited by Handschin (1960b: 536), Penny and de Costa (1983: 665), Ardila-Camacho and García (2015: 441), and Ardila-Camacho et al (2018: 321)]. Note: According to the Lacewing Digital Library (Oswald 2018), the species was also known previously as Sagittalatabatesella (Westwood).…”

“…Nomenclature. The current combination was offered by Penny (1982b: 419); cited by Ohl (2004: 146), Ardila-Camacho and García (2015: 408), and Ardila-Camacho et al (2018: 321). The species was previously known as Trichosceliaeurydella Westwood [combination by Enderlein (1910: 376)] and Anisopteraeurydella (Westwood) [generic assignment by Gerstaecker (1887: 117), but without use of the combination].…”

“…Penny (1982b: 422), Ohl (2004: 147), and Ardila-Camacho and García (2015: 413) included the species in the genus Plega . However, recently, Ardila-Camacho et al (2018: 297) demonstrated that it belongs in the genus Anchieta . The species also was previously known as Trichosceliafasciatella Westwood [combination by Enderlein (1910: 376)] and Anisopterafasciatella (Westwood) [generic assignment by Gerstaecker (1887: 117), but the combination apparently was unused and the generic name is a junior homonym (Penny 1982a: 216–217)].…”

“…Nomenclature. The current combination is by Penny (1982b: 425); it was listed by Ohl (2004: 148), Ardila-Camacho and García (2015: 415), and Ardila-Camacho et al (2018: 298). The species was also known previously as Gerstaeckerellahagenella (Westwood) [combination by Enderlein (1910: 370)].…”

“…In his original description, Westwood (1867: 504) expressly excluded M.hagenella from subgenus Trichoscelia, and we have not seen the combination used elsewhere. Neither Ohl (2004: 148), Ardila-Camacho and García (2015: 415), nor Ardila-Camacho et al (2018: 298) listed the combination among the synonyms of P.hagenella .…”