Entanoneura batesella ( Westwood, 1867 )

Ardila-Camacho, Adrian & García, Alexander, 2015, Mantidflies of Colombia (Neuroptera, Mantispidae), Zootaxa 3937 (3), pp. 401-455 : 441-443

Entanoneura batesella ( Westwood, 1867)

( Figs. 16 b, 22a‒f, 26, Map 6)

Mantispa batesella Westwood, 1867: 507 . Syntypes: male, female, Amazonia (OUM), images studied. Mantispa limbata Gerstaecker, 1885 ; Hoffman 2002: 263 (syn.).

Entanoneura picta Navás, 1914 ; Esben-Petersen 1917: 13 (syn.).

Entanoneura chopardi Navás, 1933 ; Penny 1982b: 448 (syn.).

Entanoneura jocosa Navás, 1933 ; Penny 1982b: 448 (syn.).

Entanoneura similis Handschin, 1960 ; Penny 1982b: 448 (syn.); Penny & da Costa 1983: 665 (syn.).

Entanoneura batesella ; Enderlein 1910: 359 (cat.); Handschin 1960: 536 (diag.); Penny 1982b: 448 (redesc.); Penny & da Costa 1983: 665 (redesc.); Hoffman 2002: 263 (diag.); Ohl 2004: 169 (cat.); Reynoso-Velasco & Contreras-Ramos 2008: 709 (list.).

Specimens examined: Panama: Canal Zone, 27.IV.2000 (1 ♂ ‒MUSENUV).

Diagnosis. Body mostly yellow, with a distinctive pattern of dark brown stripes ( Fig. 22 a‒e). Forewing membrane hyaline, usually cell 1M, radial triangle, anterior margin of 2M, basal third of 1RA and much of the 1CU and 1AA, amber in color ( Fig. 22 f).

Remarks. Adults of E. batesella have been captured in light and flight interception traps throughout of the year. Salazar (2001) reported this species as E. limbata Gerstaecker from Arauca.

Distribution. Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guyana, French Guyana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela.

Figures

FIGURE 16. Type material: a, Mantispa (Trichoscelia) eurydella Westwood, habitus holotype female (Photo by Amoret Spooner, Oxford University Museum of Natural History); b, Mantispa batesella Westwood, habitus syntype male (Photo by: Amoret Spooner, Oxford University Museum); c, Mantispa (Trichoscelia) fasciatella Westwood, habitus holotype female (Photo by: Zoe Simmons, Oxford University Museum).

FIGURE 22. Entanoneura batesella: a, head and prothorax, lateral; b, head, frontal; c, pteropleura; d, forefemur, outer surface; e, head and thorax, dorsal; f, fore- and hindwing.