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Zeugomantispa compellens Walker 1860

Description

Zeugomantispa compellens (Walker, 1860)

Diagnosis. This species has the body predominantly green with red marks on the pronotum, pronotum longer than broad with setae present throughout its entire length and arising from distinctive bumps, wings hyaline with pterostigma light-red and foreleg with 2 pretarsal claws.

Examined material. Brazil, Tocantins, Palmas, Fazenda Encantada, 10°15'0 2.6" S, 048°07'23.1" W, 28.viii.2017, Krolow, T.K. & Equipe leg. (6♂, 8♀ CEUFT); Brazil, Tocantins, Palmas, Vale do vai quem quer, 10°23'40.1" S, 048°07'55.8" W, 13–14.xi.2017, Krolow, T.K. & Equipe leg. (2♂, 2♀ CEUFT).

Distribution. USA, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Savador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Surinam, French Guiana, and Brazil: Roraima, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Pernambuco, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, and Paraná (Machado and Martins 2018).

New records. Tocantins: Palmas municipality.

Comments. Specimens preserved in ethanol and pinned tend to lose the overall greenish body color, becoming light-yellow or even whitish. This made dissection of the genitalia almost obligatory for identifying these specimens.

Notes

Published as part of Alvim, Breno Ganns Chaves, Machado, Renato Jose Pires & Krolow, Tiago Kütter, 2019, Mantidflies (Neuroptera, Mantispidae) from Tocantins state (Brazil): distribution and identification key, pp. 275-285 in Check List 15 (2) on pages 282-284, DOI: 10.15560/15.2.275, http://zenodo.org/record/2617010

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CEUFT
Event date
2017-08-28 , 2017-11-13
Verbatim event date
2017-08-28 , 2017-11-13/14
Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Neuroptera
Family
Mantispidae
Genus
Zeugomantispa
Species
compellens
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Zeugomantispa compellens Walker, 1860 sec. Alvim, Machado & Krolow, 2019

References

  • Machado RJP, Martins CC (2018) Mantispidae in Catalogo Taxonomico da Fauna do Brasil. PNUD. http: // fauna. jbrj. gov. br / fauna / faunadobrasil / 1694. Accessed on: 2018 - 9 - 12.