Leptomantispa Hoffman, 2002

Leptomantispa currently includes six species distributed from southwestern Canada to northern Argentina, including the Antilles (Hoffman 2002; Machado & Rafael 2010). In this work we registered one new species, L. hoffmani .

The knowledge of biology of the genus is almost limited to collection reports: adults have been found at light traps near foliage (Hoffman 2002) or in the canopies of primary forest (Machado & Rafael 2007). In North America, they are seemingly both diurnal and nocturnal and they have been collected using Malaise traps and mercury vapor traps in pine woods (Cannings & Cannings 2006). The first larval instar of L. pulchella is considered a boarder (Hoffman 2002), and it has been found in association with 20 spider species belonging to 15 genera in the families Philodromidae, Aniphaenidae, Oxiopidae, Thomisidae and Salticidae (Hoffman & Bruswein 1989) .