Disparomitus kimminsi Michel 2019, n. sp.
Creators: name: Michel, Bruno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Ascalaphidae
Disparomitus
Disparomitus kimminsi

description: Disparomitus kimminsi n. sp.
(Figs 41–46, 88, 114–116)
Diagnosis. Wing length (mm): ♂ forewing 28–29, hind wing 23–24; ♀ forewing 28, hind wing 23. General colouration dark brown. Legs yellow, femora and tibiae with two longitudinal lateral black stripes; these stripes are joined dorsally on the tibiae (Fig. 45). Mesoscutellum with a lateral black dot inside the yellow areas (Fig. 88).
Description of male. Head. Labrum and clypeus yellow. Frons black. Vertex brown. Face with white setae. Setae between bases of antennae and on vertex grey. Thorax (Fig. 88). Pronotum brown with yellowish markings. Mesonotum: prescutum dark brown with two yellowish marking at the anterior angles and two dorsal markings of the same colour. Anterior part of mesocutellum brown, this coloration is extended medially to the posterior margin. Extremity of this stripe is sometimes black. Lateral parts of mesoscutellum yellowish with two lateral black spots (Fig. 88). Postnotum brown. Postscutellum brown with very slender black erect setae. Legs. Yellow. Sides of femur and tibia with a black stripe; these stripes are confluent dorsally on tibia (Fig. 45). Abdomen (Figs 42–44). Dark brown. First tergite with black erect setae (Figs 42, 43). Tergites 2 with discal tuft of black erect setae. Lateral surfaces of tergites 2 and 3 covered with mixed stout short black and white setae (Figs 42, 43). Sternite 3 yellowish with a longitudinal black stripe divided longitudinally by a stripe of white pruinosity and strongly narrowed anteriorly (Fig. 44). Lateral margins bordered with black. Ectoprocts of male conical (Fig. 46). Male genitalia. Gonarcus-parameres complex as in figures 114–116. Gonarcus short. Parameres with the carina well developed.
Female. Same colour as male.
Material examined (6 ♂♂, 1 ♀). Holotype ♂ ZIMBABWE [Rhodesia], Laurenceville, Vumba, -6.115306/ 26.8627, alt. about 561 m, 07.xi.1957, H. Cookson leg., labelled as holotype of Disparomitus kimminsi (invalid name) by B. Tjeder 1970 (BMHN 1958–274) (Fig. 41). Paratypes. MALAWI [Nyasaland]: 1 ♂ Ramens (not located), 30.xi.1946, R.H. Lowe leg. (1948–309 NHMUK). MOZAMBIQUE: 1 ♂ Quiterajo, -11.751805/ 40.44272, alt. 18 m, Camp de base, 30.xi.2008, Rasplus & Martinez leg. (Cirad-CBGP). TANZANIA [Tanganyika]: 1 ♀ Old Shinyanga, -3.660833/33.425, alt. 1132 m, 22.xii.1958, E. Burtt. leg., Disparomitus sellatus det. Tjeder 1983 (NHMUK 1958–65). ZIMBABWE [Rhodesia]: 1 ♂ Matetsi, -18.360145/25.907539, alt. 996 m, 26.x.1934, Disparomitus longus det. Kimmins 1963 (NHMUK 4). 1 ♂ Turk Mine, - 19.71 7573/28.786842, alt. 1293 m, Matabele’d, xi.1960, Disparomitus longus det. Kimmins (NHMUK 1963–439). 1 ♂ Wankie, -18.355878/ 26.501998, alt. 759 m, xi.1961, Disparomitus longus det. Kimmins 1963 (NHMUK 1963–439).
Distribution. East Africa from Tanzania to Zimbawe (Fig. 139).
Etymology. Species dedicated to the Neuroptera specialist D. E. Kimmins.
description: Published as part of Michel, Bruno, 2019, Revision of the genus Disparomitus van der Weele, 1909 with descriptions of four new species (Neuroptera, Ascalaphidae), pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4551 (1) on pages 15-21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4551.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2622492