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

description: Disparomitus haullevillei (Navás, 1912) n. comb.
(Figs 33–40, 87, 111–113)
Suphalacsa haullevillei Navás, 1912: 404, plate XXI fig. 1.
Nagacta leplaei Navás, 1914a: 366, fig. 1. n. syn.
Nagacta schoutedeni Navás, 1914b: 92 n. syn.
Disparomitus schultzei Esben-Petersen, 1928: 73, fig. 1 n. syn.
Suphalacsa microstigma Navás, 1931: 258 n. syn.
Diganosis. Wing length (mm): ♂ forewing 32–41, hind wing 29–35; ♀ forewing 37–40, hind wing 32–34. Close to D. transvaliensis. It is characterized by the coloration of the thorax. Mesoprescutum without well defined light brown spots but with two light markings, delimitated externally by a lateral black dot. Mesoscutellum with the anterior part light in colour, with two “egg-shaped” marks separated by a light longitudinal line. These marks are connected to a posterior triangular black marking finely extended along the posterior margin (Figs 37, 85).
Redescription of male (Figs 36–38). Head. Face brown with the clypeus light brown in colour. Thorax. Prescutum black with two elongate discal markings light brown. Scutum dark brown. Mesoscutellum with the anterior third lighter in colour. Two “egg-shaped” black markings in the median third connected to a posterior triangular black marking finely expanded along the posterior margin. Side of thorax yellowish with the mesoanepisternum darker in colour. Legs. Yellowish with the external surface of femora darker in colour. Wings. Wing of male narrower than that of female. Membrane hyaline in female and slightly suffused with brown at the tip in male. Longitudinal veins yellowish. Abdomen. Longer than wings. Dark brown dorsally. First tergite saddleshaped with the posterior surface of the dorsal elevations yellowish, bearing stout black setae. Second tergite with a discal tuft of erect black setae slightly thinner than those of the first tergite. Lateral surface of tergites II and III with stout black spines. Sternites II and III yellow with a longitudinal black line. Ectoprocts dark brown with the posterior margin whitish (Fig. 38). Male genitalia. Gonarcus-parameres complex as in figures 111–113. Gonarcus black with a v-shaped marking on the discal surface. The posterior dorsal white area wrinkled. Parameres black, elongate. Carina of parameres reflected externally.
Material examined (3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀). Holotype ♀ of Suphalacsa haullevillei Navás, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, Dima, -3.274574/17.483215, alt. 299 m, 14.ix.1908, A. Koller leg. (R. DÉT. E 226 MRAC) (Fig. 33). Lectotype ♀ (designated here, Navás observed two specimens) of Suphalacsa microstigma Navás, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO [Katanga], Lubilash, -6.082077/23.784851, alt. 515 m, 09.xii.1925, Ch. Seydel leg. (00709, R. DÉT. 1751 i MRAC) (Fig. 34). Lectotype ♀ (designated here, Navás observed four specimens) of Disparomitus schultzei Esben-Petersen, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO [Belgian Congo], Kimuenza, -4.471086/15.301411, alt. 307 m, 1-4. X.1910, Dr. Arnold Schultze leg., Inner Africa Expedition d. Hrz. Adolf Friedrich zu Mecklenburg 1910–1911 (ZMUC) (Fig. 35). Holotype Ƌ of Nagacta leplaei Navás *, 1914, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, Kapiri, -10.30594/26.208139, alt. 1210 m,. x.1912, Miss. Agric. leg. (R. DÉT. L 226 MRAC) (Fig. 36). Holotype Ƌ of Nagacta schoutedeni Navás, 1914, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, Kapiri, -10.30594/26.208139, alt. 1210 m,. x.1912, Miss. Agric. leg. (00734 P, R. DÉT. M 226 MRAC) (Fig. 37). Additional material. REPUBLIC OF CONGO [Moyen Congo]: 1 ♂ Makoua, 0.0/15.63333, Etombi. Forest, viii.1960, Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia, Disparomitus? citernii det. Kimmins 1963 (NHMUK) (Fig. 38).
* Surprisingly Navás labelled this type specimen as Disparomitus leplaei and not Nagacta leplaei (Fig. 36).
Note. The original descriptions of Suphalacsa haullevillei Navás, Nagacta leplaei Navás and Nagacta schoutedeni Navás do not specify the number of type specimens nor indicate that more than one existed. Only one specimen was found for each species in MRAC, which are thus assumed to be the holotypes.
Distribution. Known from the South of the Democratic Republic of Congo and from the Republic of Congo (Fig. 139).
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 14-15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4551.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2622492