Mantispilla rimata Navás, 1929

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

Mantispilla rimata Navás

Mantispilla rimata Navás, 1929 b: 322 . Holotype: sex unknown ( ZMUH, likely lost). Type locality: Brazil: São Paulo: Santos .

Notes.

This species was described by Navás (1929 b) from the municipality of Santos, at the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Ohl (2004) and Snyman et al. (2018) expressed doubts if the description was based on one or more specimens, but in the original description the author clearly mentioned that the type has one extra crossvein on the first radial cell on the right forewing, suggesting that there was only one type specimen. After the original description it was treated in Mantispa by Penny (1977), Ohl (2004), and Snyman et al. (2018). The holotype was originally deposited in the ZMUH. However, this collection was basically destroyed during World War II, and apparently the whole Neuroptera collection was ruined, indicating that the types of all species in Mantispidae were lost ( Ohl 2004). Based solely on the original description it is impossible to associate this species with one of the current valid genera in Mantispidae , and for this reason and the absence of the holotype, we are herein considering this species as a nomen dubium.