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Cueta mysteriosa

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  • 1. Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, sezione di Zoologia " La Specola ", via Romana 17, I- 50125 Florence, Italy - emilio. insom @ gmail. com; libellula. ter @ gmail. com

Description

Cueta mysteriosa (Gerstaecker, 1894)

Myrmeleon mysteriosus Gerstaecker, 1894:141 (Od); Kolbe, 1897: 19 (Rd).

Nesoleon mysteriosus: Banks, 1911: 8 (Dst).

Cueta mysteriosa: Navás, 1914: 17 (Ct.); Navás, 1935: 52 (Ct).

Specimens examined – Ethiopia: 1♂, Gemu Gofa (loc. 54), Arba Mintch (ca. 1570 m), 13.XI.1973, C. Consiglio leg.; 4♀♀, idem, 14-15.XI.1973, A. Vigna Taglianti leg.; 1♀, Sidamo (loc. 60), 40 km W of Iavello (ca. 1500 m), 17.XI.1973, A. Vigna Taglianti leg. – Somalia: 1 spec. (sex unknown), Mogadiscio, IV.1938, S. A. Nicotra leg.; 1♀, (SO.14) Togdheer, Sheikh Pass (1450 m), 19. V.1988, G. Carpaneto leg.; 1♂, 3♀♀, (SO.02) Lower Shabelle, Afgooye, Lafoole (Facoltà di Agraria), 7-12. V.1988, A. Vigna Taglianti leg.; 2♂♂, 2♀♀, (SO.14) Togdheer, Sheikh (1440 m), 19-20. V.1988, A. Vigna Taglianti. leg.

Distribution – The species is recorded for the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, and South Africa. Ethiopia has now been added to these records.

Notes

Published as part of Insom, Emilio & Terzani, Fabio, 2024, Some Neuroptera of the Horn of Africa from the Museum of Zoology of the University of Rome " La Sapienza " (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae, Mantispidae, Ascalaphidae, Myrmeleontidae), pp. 39-52 in Fragmenta entomologica 56 (1) on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.13133/2284-4880/1591, http://zenodo.org/record/12762987

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Biodiversity

Collection code
V
Event date
1973-11-13 , 1973-11-14 , 1973-11-17 , 1988-05-07 , 1988-05-19
Family
Myrmeleontidae
Genus
Cueta
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Neuroptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Gerstaecker
Species
mysteriosa
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1973-11-13 , 1973-11-14/15 , 1973-11-17 , 1988-05-07/12 , 1988-05-19 , 1988-05-19/20
Taxonomic concept label
Cueta mysteriosa (Gerstaecker, 1894) sec. Insom & Terzani, 2024

References

  • Banks N. 1911. Notes on African Myrmeleonidae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 4: 1 - 29.
  • Navas L. 1914. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale (1911 - 1912). Resultats scientifiques. Insectes Nev- ropteres. I. Planipennia et Mecoptera. Paris. 52 pp.
  • Navas L. 1935. Spedizione zoologica del Marchese Saverio Patrizi nel Basso Giuba e nell'Oltregiuba Giugno-Agosto 1934 XII. Neurotteri. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, 58: 50 - 55.