Note on some antlions from Mozambique (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)
Author
Letardi, Agostino
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2014
2
1050
1050
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1050
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1050
1314-2828-2-1050
Cueta mysteriosa (Gerstaecker, 1893)
Materials
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: recordedBy:
P. Cerretti, D. Birtele, A. Campanaro
; individualCount:
1
; sex:
female
; Location: country:
Mozambique
; verbatimLocality: Matutuine, distr. Tinti Gala Lodge; verbatimLatitude:
26°38'44.3"S
; verbatimLongitude:
32°50'25.1"E
; Event: samplingProtocol:
light trap
; eventDate:
31.I.2008
; Record Level: institutionCode:
CNBFVR
Distribution
An antlion is very widespread in sub-Saharan Africa (
Stange 2004
,
Oswald 2013
), from Ivory Coast and Somalia to South Africa (in the Illustrated database of African
Neuroptera
, 37 localities are reported, mostly from eastern area of South Africa, some from Kenya; in
GBIF (2013)
is reported a locality from Tanzania; other 6 localities from Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania are reported in the database of Information System ZInsecta (http://www.zin.ru/projects/ZInsecta/eng/ZInsecta.asp). Two species of the same genus (
Cueta mosambica
and
Cueta heynei
), likely synonyms of
Cueta mysteriosa
(Mansell, per. comm.), have been cited in Mozambique (
Navas
1914
,
Navas
1915
), and recently (as
Cueta cf. mysteriosa
) the taxon has been reported for a generical forestry coastal area of North-eastern Mozambique (
Pascal 2011
), so the present report is the first for a precise locality of Mozambique after more than a century.