Mantispa Illiger, 1798

Hoffman (1992), proposed a new classification which divides Mantispa in various genera in his revision on the Mantispinae of America. The author’s study was based on the species groups in the review of Penny & da Costa (1983). Consequently Mantispa is restricted only to the Old World. Thus, the gracilis group, became Dicromantispa Hoffman, 2002, the minuta group, was divided into genera Leptomantispa Hoffman, 2002 and Zeugomantispa Hoffman, 2002; and the phthisica group is now referred to as the genus Buyda Navás, 1926 . Other genera were proposed for species that could not be assigned to any of the above, as in the case of Haematomantispa Hoffman, 2002 and Xeromantispa Hoffman, 2002 .