Capicua fulvicauda Navás, 1921

Michel, Bruno & Akoudjin, Massouroudini, 2011, Reinstatement of the genus Capicua Navás with descriptions of two new species (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae), Zootaxa 3032, pp. 40-46 : 41-42

Capicua fulvicauda Navás, 1921

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Capicua fulvicauda Navás, 1921:66

Geyria fulvicauda ( Navás, 1921) ; Stange, 2004:176.

Navás neither indicated how many specimens he examined in describing the species nor did he designate the specimen in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris as holotype. Consequently this specimen is designated here as lectotype ( Fig. 1 ). This male specimen is lacking both antennal flagella, tarsomeres IV–V of the right foreleg and III–V of the left foreleg, the entire right middle leg and abdomen ( Fig. 1 ). The left middle leg is glued to a card ( Fig. 2 ).

Redescription. Size: small (forewing: 21.5 mm, hind wing: 21.5 mm). Head. Vertex slightly raised. Face yellow with black chevron-shaped mark under scapes and brown above. No yellow transverse line between bases of antennae. Vertex brown limited anteriorly by a black line. Palpi yellow. Apical segment of labial palp very slightly enlarged. Thorax. Brown with darker markings. Wings. Narrow without markings. Veins light brown. Longitudinal veins slightly darker at junction with crossveins. Forewing: 15 crossveins between origin of RS and pterostigma. Legs. Yellow. Three long white slightly spatulated setae on right fore coxa and four on left fore coxa. No tuft of long white setae on fore femora. Male hind femora with a tuft of long erect setae on dorsal surface. Tibial spurs as long as first tarsomere in fore legs and middle legs ( Fig. 3 b) and shorter than first tarsomere in hind legs. Hind legs more slender than fore legs and middle legs. Foreleg: femur 0.98 mm, tibia 1.27 mm, tarsomere I 0.25 mm, II 0.16 mm, III 0.16 mm, tibial spur 0.25 mm. Middle leg: femur 1.11 mm, tibia 1.27 mm, tarsomere I 0.25 mm, II 0.16 mm, III 0.16 mm, IV 0.16 mm, V 0.54 mm, tibial spur 0.25 mm. Hind leg: femur 1.46 mm, tibia 1.49 mm, tarsomere I 0.32 mm, II 0.19 mm, III 0.19 mm, IV 0.19 mm, V 0.54 mm, tibial spur: 0.22 mm. Ectoprocts of male clearly more than 4 times longer than wide ( Fig. 3 a).

Type material. Lectotype 3— CHAD, Fort Archambault (presently Sarh) (09°09’N 18°23’E), 1st–15th June 1904, Chari-Chad mission, Dr. J. Decorse rec. ( Fig. 1 ).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 3. Capicua fulvicauda. Fig. 1. Lectotype with labels; Fig. 2. Left middle leg of lectotype; Fig. 3. Extremity of male abdomen (a) and tarsus (b) (after Navás, 1921).