Zeugomantispa chlorodes (Navás)

Pires Machado, Renato Jose, Li, Hongyu & Ohl, Michael, 2025, Solving taxonomic and nomenclatural problems among the Neotropical species of the family Mantispidae (Insecta, Neuroptera), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 72 (1), pp. 57-83 : 57-83

Zeugomantispa chlorodes (Navás)

Fig. 1

Mantispilla chlorodes Navás, 1914 a: 25 . Lectotype: sex unknown ( NHMUK) (here designated). Type locality: Panama: Chiriqui.

Notes.

This species was described from Panama, Chiriqui valley, but the number of specimens used for the description is not clear, as evidenced by Ohl (2004). In this sense, we are herein designating the specimen from NHMUK, the sole specimen found here, as the lectotype. The species was treated in Mantispa by Penny (1977) and Ohl (2004), and more recently, it was transferred to Zeugomantispa by Snyman et al. (2018) without explicit justification. Herein after studying the lectotype (tip of the abdomen missing), we agree with Snyman et al. (2018) that the species belongs in Zeugomantispa . However, it is obvious that the species is a junior synonym of Z. virescens (Rambur) . It shows all the major characters of Z. virescens , particularly a green pterostigma and the crossveins aa-ap straight in the forewing (Fig. 1 E ). This is one of the most widespread species in Mantispidae in the New World, with records from central Mexico to southern Brazil ( Hoffman 2002; Machado and Martins 2022), with a long synonymic list ( Ohl 2004). Therefore, we are herein synonymizing Mantispilla chlorodes Navás, 1914 under Zeugomantispa virescens ( Rambur, 1842) (new synonym).

Figures

Figure 1. Mantispilla chlorodes Navás 1914, lectotype, sex unknown. A, B. Habitus photo, dorsal and lateral views; C. Head, frontal view; D. Foreleg, outer surface; E. Right fore and hind wings; F. Labels.