Nampista Navás

Snyman, Louwrens P., Sole, Catherine L. & Ohl, Michael, 2018, A revision of and keys to the genera of the Mantispinae of the Oriental and Palearctic regions (Neuroptera: Mantispidae), Zootaxa 4450 (5), pp. 501-549 : 512-513

Genus Nampista Navás

Nampista Navás, 1914 . Type species: Nаmpistа speciosа Navás, 1914 (= Mаntispа аuriventris Guerin-Meneville ), by monotypy.

Forciаdа Kozhanchikov, 1949 . Type species: Forciаdа relictа Kozhanchikov, 1949 (= Mаntispа аuriventris (Guérin- Ménéville, 1838), by monotypy. Synonymised with Nаmpistа by Aspöck et аl. (1980).

Diagnosis (modified from Ohl 2009) ( Fig. 8 ): Nampista can be distinguished from all other Oriental and Palearctic genera by the unique asymmetrically lamellate or asymmetrically perfoliate flagellomeres ( Fig. 8a; b; e ) and the membranous intersegmental area at the base of tergum II, which is large and yellow in this genus ( Fig. 8c ). The pronotum is also very short, similar in shape to that of Euclimacia ( Fig. 8c ). Some form of wing pigmentation is always present. The eyes are comparatively reduced/small ( Fig. 8e ). In the hindwing, the cu-a crossvein reaches A1 proximal to the fork. A single lateral pore is present on tergite VI and VII in N. africana ( Fig. 8d ). It is not known if this is a generic character (see Nampista in Material and Methods section).

Notes: Nothing is known about the biology of Nampista . There are currently three species included in the genus with a key to the species published in the revision by Ohl (2009) (see Appendix I).

Figures

FIGURE 8. Nampista auriventris (a) thorax in dorsal view (b) thorax in lateral view (c) habitus (e) head in frontal view; Nampista africana (d) terminalia in lateral view, arrows indicate single lateral pore tergite VI, VII and VIII.