Mantidflies of Colombia (Neuroptera, Mantispidae)
Author
Ardila-Camacho, Adrian
Author
García, Alexander
text
Zootaxa
2015
3937
3
401
455
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3937.3.1
c3097c7a-760d-4669-b37d-380c5c3a1872
1175-5326
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Dicromantispa debilis
(
Gerstaecker, 1888
)
(
Fig. 26
, Map 5)
Mantispa debilis
Gerstaecker, 1888
: 114
.
Holotype
: sex unknown,
Brazil
, Pará (EMAU), not studied.
Mantispa
(
Mantispilla
)
lineaticollis
Enderlein, 1910
;
Machado & Rafael 2010
: 12
(syn.).
Mantispilla debilis
var.
nuda
Stitz 1913
;
Ohl 2004
: 168
(syn.).
Dicromantispa debilis
;
Hoffman 2002
: 259
(diag.);
Ohl 2004
: 168
(cat.);
Machado & Rafael 2010
: 12
(redesc.).
Specimens examined.
Colombia
: Boyacá:
Santa María,
21.X.
2006
, 850 m, J. Arias, direct collection (
1 ♂
—UPTC);
Caldas:
Cañaveral, La Mula,
260 m
,
I.2002
, E. Martínez (1 ♀—MEFLG);
Córdoba:
San Antero, Bahía Cispata,
15.III.2000
, G.
Alba
, Manglar (1 ♀‒ICN);
Magdalena:
Guairaca Abanico Aluvial, NNP Tayrona,
10.III.1978
, C. Kugler (1 ♀—IAvH-E-104899); NNP Tayrona,
23.VII.1977
, C. Kugler (
1 ♂
—IAvH-E-10);
Meta:
Sierra
de la Macarena,
500 m
, L. Ritcher (1 ♀—ICN).
Diagnosis.
Forefemur dark brown on the inner surface, light brown on the outer surface. Forewing base amber; hindwing with costal field hyaline. Male ectoproct with ventromedial lobe well sclerotized, flattened and plateshaped, on the dorsal surface covered with 5‒12 short and thick setae, posteroventrally slender, elongated with 6‒13 setae at apex. Gonarcal membrane with small patch of spinules, anteriorly extended from the level of apex of mediuncus to beyond of its mid-length.
Remarks.
Adults of this species are often captured in light traps at any time of year. Its altitudinal distribution in
Colombia
ranges between 260 and
850 m
.
Dicromantispa debilis
is reported from Boyacá, Caldas, Cordoba and Magdalena for the first time.
Distribution.
Colombia
,
Brazil
,
Bolivia
,
Costa Rica
,
Ecuador
,
French Guiana
,
Guyana
,
Panama
,
Peru
,
Suriname
,
Trinidad
,
Tobago
,
Venezuela
.