Panorpa venosa, Westwood, 1841

Dickson, Kathryn, 2024, Catalogue of the Family Panorpidae (Mecoptera) in Canada, México and the United States, Zootaxa 5559 (1), pp. 1-63 : 40

venosa Westwood, 1841

Panorpa venosa Westwood 1841: 190 (♀ description); Walker 1852: 463 (description); Esben-Petersen 1915: 224 (list of American species); Byers 1962a: 473 (concluded Carpenter’s (1939) lectotype (see misidentifications below) did not represent venosa , instead venosa was junior synonym of rufescens (now confusa ), and described the unnamed species as helena ), fig 5 (♀ forewing); Byers 1993: 88 (resurrected venosa limited to the coast south of the revised northeastern range of confusa , concluded Carpenter’s ♀ venosa lectotype was correct, figs 93–94, 99–100 (♀ genital plates), figs 95 and 97 (♀ terminal abdominal segments), fig 96 (♀ subgenital plate), comparison of ♂ with acuminata , fig 98 (♂ ninth abdominal tergum), fig 101 (♂ genital bulb), fig 102 (ventral paramere); Somma & Dunford 2008: 4 (new records from FL); Somma 2011: 61 (corrected date of Westwood publication); Somma 2012: (confirmation of corrected date).

Lectotype ♀: NHMUK [ NHMUK 015105067 ], white on blue “ LECTOTYPE ”, white rectangular “Brit. Mus. 1960-422”, white rectangular “ Panorpa venosa Westw. ”, “ Georgia ” and red rectangular “ LECTOTYPE Panorpa venosa Westw. ♀, George W. Byers 1961”.

Paralectotype: NHMUK (1♀) .

Published misidentifications according to Byers (1962a), who concluded the following authors described the ♂ of an unnamed species (now helena ); Hagen 1861: 242 (description); Banks 1892: 362 (NA species list, venosa found in eastern US); Smith 1900: 59 (present in NJ); Hine 1901: 250 (♂ description), figs 4, 23 (♂ forewing), fig 18 (♂ genital bulb), fig 38 (lateral view ♂ terminalia); Banks 1907: 33 (updated NA species list, distribution described as eastern US); Banks 1908: 154 (NC species list); Sherman 1908: 54 (early- and late season species in NC); Engelhardt 1915: 109 (checklist of species from the eastern US); Esben-Petersen 1921: 66 (description), fig 71 (♂ genital bulb); Carpenter 1931: 234 (description), fig 16 (♂ genital bulb), fig 51 (♀ genital plate). Carpenter 1939: 162 (lectotype designation of ♀ specimen at NHMUK); Frost & Brown 1955: 56 (PA checklist).

Distribution: USA; GA, FL.