Leptomantispa chaos Hoffman 2002
Creators: name: Alvim, Breno Ganns Chaves
name: Machado, Renato Jose Pires
name: Krolow, Tiago Kütter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Mantispidae
Leptomantispa
Leptomantispa chaos

description: <b> <i>Leptomantispa chaos</i> Hoffman, 2002</b> Figure 7A–H <b>Diagnosis.</b> This species has the body predominantly yellow with light-brown marks, pronotum longer than broad with setae present throughout its entire length, wings with pterostigma dark-brown and space between subcostal and radial veins light-brown, foreleg with 2 pretarsal claws and with ventral dark-brown mark on the femur. <b>Examined material.</b> Brazil, Tocantins, Porto Nacional, Fazenda São Judas Tadeo, 10°48'21.5" S, 048°26'13.6" W, 05.viii.2011, Krolow, T.K. &amp; Equipe leg. (1&amp;male; CEUFT); Brazil, Tocantins, Palmas, Fazenda Encantada, 10°15' 0 2.6" S, 048°07'23.1" W, 9–10.xi.2012, Krolow, T.K. &amp; Lima, H.I.L. leg. (1&amp;female; CEUFT); Brazil, Tocantins, Palmas, Roncadeira, 10°18.226' S, 048°08.338' W, 20–22. ii.2015, Krolow, T.K. (2&amp;female; CEUFT); Brazil, Tocantins, Porto Nacional, Fazenda São Judas Tadeo, 10°48'21.5" S, 048°26'13.6" W, 27–29.iii.2015, Krolow, T.K. &amp; Equipe leg. (2&amp;female; CEUFT); Brazil, Tocantins, Pium, Centro de Pesquisa Canguçu, 09°58'44.4" S, 050°02'13.1" W, 1–02. xi.2016, Krolow, T.K. &amp; Equipe leg. (2&amp;female; CEUFT); Brazil, Tocantins, Palmas, Fazenda Encantada, 10°15'0 2.6" S, 048°07'23.1" W, 28.viii.2017, Krolow, T.K. &amp; Equipe leg. (6&amp;male;, 7&amp;female; CEUFT); Brazil, Tocantins, Palmas, Vale do vai quem quer, 10°23'40.1"S, 048°07'55.8" W, 13–14. xi.2017, Krolow, T. K. &amp; Equipe leg. (1&amp;female; CEUFT). <b>Distribution.</b> Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela, French Guiana, and Brazil: Amazonas and Pará (Machado and Martins 2018). <b>New records.</b> Tocantins: Palmas, Porto Nacional, and Pium municipalities. <b>Comments.</b> Some of the specimens collected here were paler than described in the literature (Machado and Rafael 2010). Our specimens had light-brown marks while previously reported specimens had dark-brown marks, which suggests a possibility of regional variation, as the male genitalia are consistent with the original description (Hoffman 2002) and the later redescription (Machado and Rafael 2010).
description: Published as part of <i>Alvim, Breno Ganns Chaves, Machado, Renato Jose Pires &amp; Krolow, Tiago Kütter, 2019, Mantidflies (Neuroptera, Mantispidae) from Tocantins state (Brazil): distribution and identification key, pp. 275-285 in Check List 15 (2)</i> on page 282, DOI: 10.15560/15.2.275, http://zenodo.org/record/2617010
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