Doratomantispa ares Lu 2020
Creators: name: Li, Hongyu
name: Zhuo, De
name: Cao, Leran
name: Wang, Bo
name: Poinar, George
name: Ohl, Michael
name: Liu, Xingyue
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Mantispidae
Doratomantispa
Doratomantispa ares

description: Doratomantispa ares Lu et al., 2020
Figures 5, 6
Lu et al., 2020: 3 (original: Doratomantispa; holotype in NIGP).
Diagnosis Pronotum long and robust (LP: WPM = 4.79), slightly longer than pterothorax. Profemoral ISs rows: major process with primary branch 2.0 × length of secondary branch; posteroventral row with five gradually shortened processes, subequal gaps among proximal three processes, primary process 2.0 × length of following one and slightly longer than secondary branch; protibia dorsally bearing short setae, protibial prostrate setae strongly angularly curved. Forewing with nearly half of costal crossveins proximad pterostigma bifurcated or trifurcated, two ra-rp, CuA with four main branches; hind wing medial inner gradates absent. Male sternum 9 broad, deeply scoop-like, not surpassing apex of ectoprocts, slightly longer than latter; gonocoxites 9 distally simple and obtuse; gonapophyses 10 broad; gonostyli 10 (pseudopenis) moderately long, curved dorsad; ectoprocts subtriangular, longer than wide, basally distinctly broadened.
Material examined Holotype, NIGP 173084 polished amber piece preserving a complete male adult of D. ares, a dipteran, a parasitoid wasp and two psocids. The amber piece is shaped in the form of an ovoid transparent cabochon, with length × width c. 23.61 × 16.78 mm, height c. 7.44 mm.
Remarks After re-examination of the holotype of D. ares, we found that a few characters of this species need to be corrected, including: (1) The primary branch of major process of the profemur is twice as long as the secondary branch, while it was drawn as 1.5 × length of secondary branch in Lu et al. (2020, fig. S4C). (2) The hind wing ScP is distally fused with RA, because there are still some weak incorporated veinlets in the pterostigma observed to directly connect RA as in other species of Doratomantispa although this part of the wing is poorly preserved in the holotype. The distal portion of ScP that is drawn to be separate from RA in Lu et al. (2020, fig. S4I) actually belongs to the posterior boundary of the dark pigment of the pterostigma. (3) The hind wing 1ra-rp is actually present (Fig. 6b), but it was overlooked in Lu et al. (2020, fig. S4I). (4). In Lu et al. (2020, fig. S4I), the hind wing CuP actually includes true CuP branches and A1, thus the A1 and A2 are corrected as A2 and A3. Additionally, the weak stem of CuP is now detected (Fig. 6c).
Doratomantispa ares can be distinguished from the remaining species of Doratomantispa, except D. burmanica, D. pouilloni, D. zhuozhengmingi sp. nov. and D. zhangzhiqiae sp. nov. (profemur unknown) by the major process with the primary branch 2.0× length of the secondary branch and the subequal gaps among the proximal three processes of the profemoral posteroventral row. It can be distinguished from D. burmanica and D. zhuozhengmingi sp. nov. by the forewing with nearly a half of the costal crossveins bifurcated or trifurcated and only two ra-rp. It differs from D. zhangzhiqiae sp. nov. by the absence of a distinct stripe (formed by markings on 2 m-cu, cua-cup, and between CuP and A1) on the posteroproximal portion of the forewing, the male sternum 9 not surpassing the apex of ectoprocts which is subtriangular and basally distinctly broadened, and the male gonocoxite 9 distally simple. It can be distinguished from D. pouilloni by the forewing with nearly a half of costal crossveins bifurcated or trifurcated and hind wing with two ra-rp and one series of gradates.
description: Published as part of Li, Hongyu, Zhuo, De, Cao, Leran, Wang, Bo, Poinar, George, Ohl, Michael & Liu, Xingyue, 2022, New Cretaceous fossil mantispids highlight the palaeodiversity of the extinct subfamily Doratomantispinae (Neuroptera: Mantispidae), pp. 681-730 in Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) (New York, N. Y.) 22 (3) on pages 690-692, DOI: 10.1007/s13127-022-00546-y, http://zenodo.org/record/13182163