Bullanga binaria Navás 1917

Zhan, Qingbin & Wang, Xinli, 2014, A review of the genus Bullanga Navás, 1917 (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), Zootaxa 3872 (2), pp. 195-200 : 196-198

Bullanga binaria Navás 1917

( Figs.1 A , C)

Bullanga binaria Navás 1917: 15

Diagnosis. Vertex dark brown, inflated; pronotum trapezoidal, yellow with dense black and white setae and several dark stripes in the middle; forewing veins black and yellow; costal area simple; Rs arises before CuA fork, 2 presectoral crossveins before original of Rs; anterior Banksian line distinct; rhegma area and apical area with big irregular spots; hind wing with a single presectoral crossveins; anterior Banksian line distinct; apical area with big irregular spot; legs slender, spurs straight, curved at apex, subequal to first tarsomere, claws bent back.

Redescription. Female: forewing 40 mm, hind wing 42mm. abdomen missing.

Head: Face dark brown, abrum, maxillary and labial palpi black; antenna clavate; compound eye dark with black spots, vertex dark brown; thorax (fig. 1C): pronotum trapezoidal, yellow with dense black and white setae and several dark stripes in the middle; mesothorax and metathorax dark with several yellow spots; wings: hyaline with several markings, veins yellow and black; forewing costal area simple, widened towards apex, several disconnected spots in subcostal area, Rs arises before CuA fork; 2 presectoral crossveins before original of Rs; 26 veins from origin of Rs to hypostigmatic cell; anterior Banksian line distinct, posterior Banksian line absent; 15 cross-veins in prefork area; a yellowish-brown stripe in anastomosis of CuA and CuP+1A, a irregular spot in rhegma and apical area; 2A with several branches runs in fairly even curve toward to 3A; hind wing costal area simple, Rs arises before CuA fork, a single presectoral cross-vein before origin of Rs; anterior Banksian line distinct, without posterior Banksian line; a irregular spot in apical area; 13 cross-veins in prefork area. legs: long and slender; foreleg: femur yellow with several spots and black dense short setae; 5 th tarsomere equal to 1st tarsomere, tibial spurs straight, curved at apex, reaching to distal region of 1st tarsomere; claw developed, curves to tarsomere; abdomen: missing.

Material examined. 1♀, Chapa, Tonkin, French Indo-China, 4500–4800 feet, 1934. VIII. 14–16, Ernest R. Tinkham, CAU-N100070.

Distribution. Vietnam.

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.