Nevrorthus reconditus Monserrat & Gavira, 2014

Aspoeck, Ulrike, Aspoeck, Horst & Liu, Xingyue, 2017, The Nevrorthidae, mistaken at all times: phylogeny and review of present knowledge (Holometabola, Neuropterida, Neuroptera), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 64 (2), pp. 77-110 : 83-84

Nevrorthus reconditus Monserrat & Gavira, 2014 Figs 3 e–f; 14

Nevrorthus reconditus Monserrat & Gavira, 2014: 352 (odescr, figs: wings, gs male, la, distrmap).

Type locality.

Spain (Malaga: Coín, Sierra Alpujata).

Male.

Forewing length 6.1 mm, hindwing length 5.1 mm.

Head very pale brown. Antennae pale yellow, scapus and pedicellus brownish, basal two thirds of flagellum pale brownish, apically darker. Mouthparts brownish.

Pronotum pale brownish, with irregular darker pattern; meso-metanotum pale brownish with dark brown patches. Legs brownish. Wings hyaline, membrane uncoloured; forewing veins brownish, crossveins very dark and with dark shadows; hindwing veins brownish, crossveins partly with shadow.

Abdomen with tergites and sternites irregularly brownish pigmented. Gonocoxites 9 as huge plates, gonostyli 9 digitiform, gonapophyses 9 processus-like; ectoproct broadly rounded. Complex of gonocoxites + gonostyli + gonapophyses 10 amalgamated with sternite 9, forming a pseudoapex of the latter and framing it laterally, terminally sinuate. Gonocoxites 11 fused into a bow-like bridge.

Female.

Forewing length 6.4-6.7 mm, hindwing length 5.8-6.0 mm.

Text adapted from Monserrat and Gavira (2014): Tergite 9 with a small circular emargination on the caudal margin. Fused gonocoxites 8 forming a broad sclerite with external margins straight; gonocoxites 9 narrow and digitiform.

Specimens examined by Monserrat and Gavira (2014), see there and Supplementary material 1. Holotype male (by original designation): "Spain, Malaga, Coín, Sierra Alpujata, Arroyo del Manzano, 30SUF35 (WGS84), 450 m, 13.V.2013, captured with a light trap in perennial stream covered by bushy willow gallery forest, T. Herrera, P. Carrasco & O. Gavira leg." (VM).

Biology and ecology.

Adults have been taken from April–May. The known vertical distribution is 150-450 m. The larva is known and has been described ( Monserrat and Gavira 2014).

Distribution.

Spain (Malaga).