Bullanga insolita ( Banks) 1940

Zhan, Qingbin & Wang, Xinli, 2014, A review of the genus Bullanga Navás, 1917 (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), Zootaxa 3872 (2), pp. 195-200 : 199-200

Bullanga insolita ( Banks) 1940

( Figs.1 B, D)

Dendroleon insolita Banks, 1940:193 , synonymized by Stange 1976: 289.

Redescription. Female: forewing 35 mm, hind wing 37 mm. abdomen 23 mm

Head: brown and yellow; compound eye dark with black spots, vertex inflated with several transverse dark stripes. thorax (fig. 1D): anterior portion of pronotum in front with dark marks, trapezoidal, yellow with dense black setae and three longitudinal dark stripes; mesothorax and metathorax yellow with a black stripe in the middle, each side with two black lines; wings: hyaline with no large markings, veins yellow and black; forewing costal area simple, widened towards apex, several disconnected spots in subcostal area, Rs arises before CuA fork; 3 presectoral crossveins before original of Rs; 28 veins from origin of Rs to hypostigmatic cell; anterior Banksian line distinct, posterior Banksian line absent; 13 cross-veins in prefork area; a dark spot in anastomosis of CuA and CuP+1A, a dark mark in rhegma area; 2A with several branches running in a fairly even curve toward to 3A vein; hind wing costal area simple, Rs arises before CuA fork, a single presectoral cross-vein before origin of Rs; anterior Banksian line distinct, posterior Banksian line absent; several small spots in apical area; 13 cross-veins in prefork area; legs: yellow with black, foreleg first femur mostly black and with dense short setae, hind femora mostly dark, but a pale stripe each side. tibial spurs longer than the long basal joint of tarsus; abdomen: yellow, dark on sides and at end of joints; darker at tips of joints.

Typed material examined. Holotype: 1♀, Dong Men Wai, 10 miles west of Weichow, Szechwan, China, 5600–8500 feet, 1933. VII. 8., Graham.

Distribution. China: Sichuan Province

Figures

FIGURE 1. A: Bullanga binaria Navás 1917, habitus; B: Bullanga insolita (Banks) 1940, habitus. C – E: pronotum: C: B. binaria; D: B. insolita; E: B. florida.