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Zeugomantispa

Zeugomantispa, the green mantidflies, is a genus of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae.

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Zeugomantispa
Zeugomantispa minuta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Neuroptera
Family: Mantispidae
Subfamily: Mantispinae
Genus: Zeugomantispa
Hoffman in Penny, 2002

Zeugomantispa, the green mantidflies, is a genus of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae.1

Distribution and habitat

The species of Zeugomantispa are found in the Americas from the United States to Argentina.The species are exclusively neotroical apart from Z. minuta, which is the only species to occur in the United States.23

Description and identification

Zeugomantispa is a genus of green-colored mantidflies.3 The vertex of the head is concave, and the pronotum is covered with bumps that produce setae. Their raptorial forelegs have a single tarsal claw. The forewings are hyaline and unmarked apart from the pterostigma.4

Species

There are 6 described species of Zeugomantispa:35

  • Zeugomantispa chlorodes (Navás, 1914)
  • Zeugomantispa chlorotica (Navás, 1912)
  • Zeugomantispa compellens (Walker, 1860)
  • Zeugomantispa femoralis (Navás, 1914)
  • Zeugomantispa minuta (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Zeugomantispa virescens (Rambur, 1842)
References

References

  1. Abbott, John; Abbott, Kendra (2023). Insects of North America. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 286–287. ISBN 9780691232850.
  2. Ohl, Michael (2004). "Annotated catalog of the Mantispidae of the World (Neuroptera)". Contributions on Entomology, International. 5: 131–262. ISSN 1084-0745.
  3. Machado, Pires; José, Renato; Rafael, José Albertino (2010). "Taxonomy of the Brazilian species previously placed in Mantispa Illiger, 1798 (Neuroptera: Mantispidae), with the description of three new species". Zootaxa. 2454 (1): 1–61. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2454.1.1.
  4. Reynoso-Velasco, Daniel; Contreras-Ramos, Atilano (2008). "Mantispidae (Neuroptera) of Mexico: Distribution and Key to Genera". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 101 (4): 703–712. doi:10.1093/aesa/101.4.703.
  5. Snyman, Louwrens P.; Sole, Catherine L.; Ohl, Michael (2018). "A revision of and keys to the genera of the Mantispinae of the Oriental and Palearctic regions (Neuroptera: Mantispidae)". Zootaxa. 4450 (5): 501–549. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4450.5.1.
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