Zeugomantispa paraguayana (Ohl)

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 paraguayana (Ohl)

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Mantispilla nana Navás, 1912: 201. Lectotype: female ( ZSMC) (here designated). Type locality: Paraguay: San Bernardino.

Mantispa paraguayana Ohl, 2004: 188. Replacement name for Mantispilla nana Navás, 1912, a junior secondary homonym of Mantispa nana Erichson, 1839.

Notes.

The species was originally described as Mantispilla nana by Navás (1912). The author did not explicitly state the number of specimens available to him, but he might have seen more than one specimen. In this sense, we are herein designating the female specimen from ZSMC, the sole specimens found here, as the lectotype. Posterior to the original description the species was only mentioned by Penny (1977), who transferred it to Mantispa . Later, Ohl (2004) noticed that after the transference of the species to Mantispa , it was now a junior secondary homonym of Mantispa nana Erichson, 1839 (today Afromantispa nana ). In this sense, he designated a replacement name for the species, Mantispa paraguayana , inspired by its type locality. Posterior to that the name was only mentioned again by Snyman et al. (2018), who treated it as Mantispilla paraguayana ( Ohl, 2004) . Herein after studying the lectotype, it became obvious that this species is another synonym of Zeugomantispa virescens ( Rambur, 1842) . It has all the major diagnostic characters of the species, like the rugose pronotum (Fig. 15 B ), the green pterostigma and the crossveins aa-ap straight in the forewing (Fig. 15 C ). Therefore, we are herein synonymizing Mantispa paraguayana Ohl, 2004 under Zeugomantispa virescens ( Rambur, 1842) (new synonym).

Figures

Figure 15. Mantispilla nana Navás 1912, lectotype, female. A, B. Habitus photo, dorsal and lateral views; C. Left fore and hind wings; D. Cocoons; E. Labels.