Menkeleon bellulus ( Banks, 1905 )

Tavares, Leon Gustavo de Miranda, Marquez-López, Yesenia, Machado, Renato Jose Pires, Martins, Caleb Califre & Contreras-Ramos, Atilano, 2023, Antlions of formerly recognized tribe Gnopholeontini (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae: Brachynemurini) from Peninsula of Baja California, with a new species of Tyttholeon Adams, Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (e 20230044) 67, pp. 1-17 : 9

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https://doi.org/ 10.1590/1806-9665-RBENT-2023-0044

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scientific name

Menkeleon bellulus ( Banks, 1905 )
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Menkeleon bellulus ( Banks, 1905) View in CoL

Figs. 1C View Figure 1 , 8–9 View Figure 8 View Figure 9

Maracandula bellula Banks, 1905: 7 View in CoL [Lectotype female, Three Rivers, California (MCZ), designated by Stange, 1970: 155]. – Baker, 1905: 90 [distribution]. – Banks, 1907: 32 [species list]. – Banks 1927: 59 [redescription, taxonomy, distribution]. – Markl, 1954: 224 [illustration of wings]. – Adams, 1956: 93 [genitalia illustration].

= Maracandula minima Banks, 1942: 140 View in CoL [Holotype male, San Miguel, Lower California, 03.vii.1938, M & R (CAS)]. – Banks, 1942 [illustrations]. – Stange, 1970: 155 [synonymy].

= Menkeleon bellulus ( Banks, 1905) View in CoL . – Stange, 1970: 155 [new combination, redescription, taxonomy, distribution]. – Penny, 1977: 45 [distribution].– Penny et al., 1997: 85 [taxonomy, distribution].– Stange, 1994: 92, 112, 117 [larvae description, illustration, larvae photograph]. – Stange, 2004: 251 [taxonomy, types, distribution]. – Badano et al., 2018: 936, 937 [phylogeny].

Distribution. US (AZ, CA, NM, TX, UT), Mexico (BC, CHIH, SON).

Diagnosis. Adults. Abdomen banded with pale and dark brown; wings in rest in a moth-like position; male gonarcus broad, not twisted laterally; paramere plates sclerotized ventrally; paramere teeth basally expanded, broad, slightly curved and pointing posterodorsally; female lateral gonapophysis with long digging setae; posterior gonapophysis cylindrical, with hairlike setae.

Remarks. This species was first recorded from Mexico (and Baja California) by Stange (1970). The general pale and dark coloration with a banded abdomen and setose body are very characteristic for this species. Additionally, when perched, M. bellulus individulas rest their wings in a characteristic moth-like position ( Fig. 1C View Figure 1 ), a behavior also seen in Chaetoleon tripunctatus ( Banks, 1922), C. variabilis Banks, 1942 and in a few Brachynemurini formerly included in the Lemolemini.

Material examined. (1♂, 2♀) México – Baja California: Ensenada, Rancho Mike’s Sky, Hotel , 1205 m; 31°06.569’N, 115º38.199’W; 01.vii.2022 GoogleMaps ;

1 ♀; colecta manual; A. Contreras, A. Gómez, Y. Marquez, A. Ramírez, M. Ramírez; CNIN NEU:MYR:4008 • Sierra Juarez , 1.1 km N Rancho El Piedra, ca. 15 km S Parque Nacional Constitución de 1857, 1512 m; 31°53.832’N, 115º57.936’W; 29.vi.2022 GoogleMaps ; 1♂; trampa de luz UV, vapor de mercurio, aditivos metálicos; A. Contreras, A. Gómez, Y. Marquez, A. Ramírez, M. Ramírez; CNIN NEU:MYR:4091. Sonora: La Aduana ; 22.v.1062 ; 1 ♀; F. D. Parker, L. A. Stange; CNIN NEU:MYR:2637 .

CNIN

Coleccion Nacional de Insectos, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

UV

Departamento de Biologia de la Universidad del Valle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Neuroptera

Family

Myrmeleontidae

Genus

Menkeleon

Loc

Menkeleon bellulus ( Banks, 1905 )

Tavares, Leon Gustavo de Miranda, Marquez-López, Yesenia, Machado, Renato Jose Pires, Martins, Caleb Califre & Contreras-Ramos, Atilano 2023
2023
Loc

Menkeleon bellulus ( Banks, 1905 )

Badano, D. & Miller, R. & Stange, L. A. 2018: 936
Stange, L. A. 2004: 251
Penny, N. D. & Adams, P. A. & Stange, L. A. 1997: 85
Stange, L. A. 1994: 92
Penny, N. D. 1977: 45
Stange, L. A. 1970: 155
1970
Loc

Maracandula minima

Stange, L. A. 1970: 155
Banks, N. 1942: 140
1942
Loc

Maracandula bellula

Stange, L. A. 1970: 155
Adams, P. A. 1956: 93
Markl, W. 1954: 224
Banks, N. 1927: 59
Banks, N. 1907: 32
Banks, N. 1905: 7
1905
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