Dicromantispa Hoffman 2002
Creators: name: MACHADO, RENATO JOSÉ PIRES
name: RAFAEL, JOSÉ ALBERTINO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Mantispidae
Dicromantispa

description: Key to Brazilian species of Dicromantispa   
1. Forewing membrane hyaline basally (Fig. 9e)............................................................................................................. 2  
1’. Forewing membrane brown basally (Fig. 5f)............................................................................................................... 3  
 2. Pterostigma reddish-brown (Fig 7f). Male: ventromedial lobe straight (Fig. 8b, c); ectoproct with external border yellow and internal one brown ....................................................................................................................... D. gracilis   
 2’. Pterostigma light yellow with apex brown (Fig 9e), Male: ventromedial lobe curved (Fig. 10c, e); ectoproct completely dark brown ................................................................................................................................ D. hyalina n. sp.   
3. Hindwing space between C and Sc completely or at least with basal half brown (Fig. 13f)....................................... 4  
3’. Hindwing space between C and Sc hyaline (Fig. 15g)................................................................................................. 5  
 4. Pronotum white or light yellow except brown before maculae (Fig. 11d) males with gonarcus lateral lobes distinct in lateral view (Fig, 12f) ..................................................................................................................... D. leucophaea n. sp.   
 4’. Pronotum light brown with a central dark brown stripe (Fig. 13c) males with gonarcus lateral lobes indistinct in lateral view (Fig, 14h) .......................................................................................................................................... D. moulti   
 5. Head central longitudinal stripe interrupted at frons (Fig. 15a). Pronotum dark brown before maculae (Fig. 15d). Male: gonarcal membrane with medial group of spinules wider than long, touching apex of the gonocoxites (Fig. 16g). Female with subrectangular plate covered by spinules anterior to bursa (Fig. 16k) ........................... D. synapsis   
 5’. Head central longitudinal stripe not interrupted at frons (Fig. 5a) Pronotum light brown with three dark brown spots before maculae (Fig. 5c). Male: gonarcal membrane with medial group of spinules longer than wide, not touching apex of the gonocoxites (Fig. 6e). Female without subrectangular plate covered by spinules anterior to bursa (Fig. 6i) ........................................................................................................................................................................ D. debilis
description: Published as part of MACHADO, RENATO JOSÉ PIRES & RAFAEL, JOSÉ ALBERTINO, 2010, Taxonomy of the Brazilian species previously placed in Mantispa Illiger, 1798 (Neuroptera: Mantispidae), with the description of three new species, pp. 1-61 in Zootaxa 2454 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2454.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093813