Unveiling the Evolutionary History of a Puzzling Antlion Genus Gatzara Navás (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae: Dendroleontinae) Based on Systematic Revision,
Author
Zheng, Yuchen
Department of Entomology, @ hina Agricultural University,; eijing 100193, @ hina,
Author
Hayashi, Fumio
Department of; iology, Tocyo Metropolitan University, Tocyo 192 - 0397, Japan,
Author
Price, Benjamin W.
Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW 7 5; D, UK, and
Author
Liu, Xingyue
Department of Entomology, @ hina Agricultural University,; eijing 100193, @ hina,
liu@yahoo.com
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Insect Systematics and Diversity
2022
2022-05-20
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixac007
journal article
10.1093/isd/ixac007
2399-3421
10833507
Genus
Gatzara
Navás, 1915
Gatzara
Navás 1915: 385
;
Navás 1935: 47
;
Miller et al. 1999: 50
; Stange et al. 2003: 76; Stange 2004: 90;
Wang et al. 2012: 34
; Sekimoto 2014: 34;
Yang et al. 2018: 63
;
Wang et al. 2018: 55
.
Machado et al. 2019: 443
.
Type
Species:
Gatzara jubilaea
Navás 1915: 386
(original designation and monotypy).
Included Species:
Gatzara benaci
Navás 1935
;
Gatzara jubilaea
Navás 1915
;
Gatzara nigrivena
Wang
inWang et al. 2012.
Diagnosis.
Body pale brown with many black markings. Antennae black on intumescent part. Pronotum longer than wide, medially with a black stripe. Legs long and slender; tarsi with thickened setal brush; pretarsal claws slightly curved, protruded basally. Wings generally transparent, with scattered minute dark brown markings; costal crossveins simple; hind wing poststigmal area with few markings; anterior Banksian line present. Female anterior branch of gonocoxites 8 elongate, twice as long as posterior branch of gonocoxites 8, or even longer; gonapophyses 8 distinctly sclerotized (
Fig. 11A,B
).