Neotropical osmylids (Neuroptera, Osmylidae): Three new species of Isostenosmylus Krüger, 1913, new distributional records, redescriptions, checklist and key for the Neotropical species
Author
Martins, Caleb Califre
Author
Ardila-Camacho, Adrian
Author
Aspöck, Ulrike
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Zootaxa
2016
4149
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4149.1.1
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Key to the Neotropical species of
Osmylidae
(modified from
Oswald 1994
and
Ardila-Camacho & Noriega 2014
)
1. Antennae longer than forewing (
Fig. 2
A); flagellomeres twice as long as broad (
Figs. 2
C); costal field with pterostigma barely perceptible (
Fig. 2
B); ocelli absent (
Figs 2
D, E)....................................................
Gumilla
... 2
- Antennae shorter than forewing (
Figs 5
A; 7B; 34A; 42A); flagellomeres about as long as wide (
Fig. 13
C); costal field with pterostigma weakly to well-marked (
Figs. 5
A; 6A, B; 7A; 34A; 42A); ocelli present (
Figs. 7
B, C)...................... 3
2. Forewing with brown marks on the membrane of Rs and M veins (
Fig. 2
B)............................ ..
G. adspersus
- Forewing without brown marks on the membrane of Rs and M veins (
Fig. 4
B)...........................
G. longicornis
3. Forewing MP fork near wing base, usually at the level of midpoint between MA stem and first branch of Rs (
Figs 6
A, B; 37B).................................................................................................... 4
- Forewing MP fork more distally located, usually near to the mid-length of wing (
Figs 22
B; 24C; 34A)................. 8
4. Inner and outer gradate series well-delimited, with conspicuous fuscous brown maculation (
Figs 6
A, B)..................................................................................................
Paryphosmylus ornatus
- Not so well-delimited gradates series, without fuscous brown maculation (
Fig. 37
B)....................
Kempynus
... 5
5. Forewing apex broadly rounded, subapical margin with a well-delimited pale lunate region posteriorly (
Fig. 37
B)....................................................................................................
K. crenatus
- Forewing apex angulate, subapical margin without a well-delimited pale lunate region posteriorly (
Figs 36
A; 39A; 42A).. 6
6. Forewing without a prominent biangulate fuscous maculation distally (dark maculae of other shapes may be present) (
Fig. 39
A)........................................................................................
K.falcatus
- Forewing with a prominent biangulate fuscous maculation distally (
Figs 34
A, 42A)................................ 7
7. Proximal third of subcostal region of forewing without well-delimited fuscous spots (
Fig. 34
A); free distal lobes of female ninth gonapophyses enclosing a narrow, proximally acute space in ventral view (
Fig. 34
C)..............
K. digoniostigma
- Proximal third of subcostal region of forewing with two or three well-delimited fuscous spots (
Fig. 42
A); free distal lobes of female ninth gonapophyses enclosing a broad, proximally rounded space in ventral view (
Fig. 42
C).............
K. tjederi
8. Forewing narrow, posterodistal margin falcate; hindwing membrane amber suffused (
Fig. 34
A)...
Phymatosmylus caprorum
- Forewing broad, posterodistal margin convexly curved; hindwing membrane often hyaline (
Figs 7
A; 8B; 13B; 19B; 22B)........................................................................................
Isostenosmylus
... 9
9. Hindwing with maculae between the C and R1; posterior wing margin from midlength to preapical region below of pterostigma, with apices of longitudinal veins and gradate series brown infuscated, remainder surface of veins mainly yellow- ish (
Fig. 22
B)................................................................................
I. nigrifrons
- Hindwing completely hyaline or with few small amber spots; venation more or less uniformly pigmented (
Figs 7
A; 13B; 19B; 22B)............................................................................................... 10
10. Forewing dotted with numerous small amber spots on veins and wing membrane (
Fig. 8
B; 13B; 24C)................ 11
- Forewing weakly pigmented, with few amber spots (
Figs 28
A; 7A; 10A, C; 16B; 19B)............................. 13
11. Pterostigma not well-marked, translucent (
Fig. 8
B); posterior margin of female seventh sternite in ventral view produced in two blunt tips and medially incised (
Fig. 9
D)...................................................
I
.
irroratus
n. sp.
- Pterostigma well-marked (
Figs. 13
B; 24B); posterior margin of female seventh sternite in ventral view rounded (
Figs 15
C, D; 26C, D)............................................................................................ 12
12. Female ninth gonapophyses Y-shaped in ventral view with apical lobes short and simple (
Figs. 26
C, D); male ectoproct in lat- eral view posteroventrally with a bluntly rounded lobe (
Fig. 25
B)...................................
I. pulverulentus
- Female ninth gonapophyses in ventral view with basal half widened, apical lobes bilobate (
Figs 15
C, D); male ectoproct in lat- eral view posterodorsally with a bluntly rounded lobe (
Figs 14
B, C)....................................
I
.
contrerasi
13. Forewing with numerous costal crossveins forked near to the costal margin (
Fig. 28
A)............
I. septemtrionalandinus
- Forewing with costal crossveins unforked or at least with few forks (
Figs 7
A; 10A, C; 16B; 19B).................... 14
14. Male ectoproct in lateral view poteromedially with a prominent pointed process (
Figs 9
A, B; 20 A, B)................. 15
- Male ectoproct in lateral view posterodorsally with a prominent bifurcated process (
Figs 7
B, C; 17A, B).............. 16
15. Distal 1/3 of forewing between R1 and MP fork with numerous small amber spots on crossveins (
Figs. 10
A, C); male tenth gonocoxites with apical portion of ventral branches acute (
Figs 9
C, D)..............................
I. julianae
n. sp.
- Distal 1/3 of forewing between R1 and MP with very few amber spots on crossveins (
Fig. 19
B); male tenth gonocoxites with apical portion of ventral branches rounded (
Figs 20
A, B).............................................
I. fusciceps
16. Male ninth gonocoxites in ventral view with apex of medial lobe straight, posterolaterally slightly emarginated (
Figs. 7
E, F).......................................................................................
I. bifurcatus
n. sp.
- Male ninth gonocoxites in ventral view with apex of medial lobe rounded, medially with a short rounded lobe (
Fig. 17
E, F)..............................................................................................
I. fasciatus