Bullanga florida Navas 1913
Creators: name: Zhan, Qingbin
name: Wang, Xinli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Myrmeleontidae
Bullanga
Bullanga florida

description: Bullanga florida (Navás) 1913
(Figs. 2 A–D)
Glenurus floridus Navás 1913:11. synonymized by Stange 2004: 78.
Dendroleon parabolicus Navás 1933:2. synonymized by Banks 1940: 194.
Redescription. Male: forewing 34–42 mm, hind wing 36–44 mm, abdomen 21–24 mm; female: forewing 36–43 mm, hind wing 38–45 mm, abdomen 22–24 mm
Head: vertex inflated, dark brown with black setae; compound eye dark with black spots; forehead yellowish with sparse setae; clypeus and labium yellowish, labial palpi white and yellow. antenna clavate. thorax (Fig. 1 E): pronotum trapezoidal, longer than wide; yellow with dense black and white setae; a black stripe in the middle; a brown band in each side; mesothorax and metathorax dark with several yellow stripes; mesothorax with sparse black setae, 2 white setae tuft; wings: hyaline with several distinct stripes; forewing costal area simple, widened towards apex, Rs arises before CuA fork; 3 presectoral crossveins before original of Rs; 29–33 veins from origin of Rs to hypostigmatic cell; anterior Banksian line distinct, posterior Banksian line absent; 19–21 cross-veins in prefork area; anastomosis place of CuP+1A and CuA with an arch-shaped black stripe; a linear stripe in rhegma area; 2A with several branches running in a fairly even curve toward to 3A vein; hind wing costal area simple, Rs arises before CuA fork, a single presectoral cross-vein before origin of Rs; anterior Banksian line distinct, posterior Banksian line absent; a black spot in rhegma area; 14–15 cross-veins in prefork area; legs (fig. 2D): long and slender, with sparse long hair and dense short seate; foreleg: femur and titbia mostly black, 1st tarsomere and base of femur yellowish. 2 nd to 5 th tarsomere black. 1st tarsomere equals to 5 th tarsomere, the 2nd to 4th tarsomere shorter; tibial spurs yellowish-brown, straight, curved at apex, extending to 1st tarsomere; claw brown, curves to 5 th tarsomere; midleg and hindleg similar to foreleg; base of midleg tibia yellowish-rown; femur of hindleg yellow with some brown spots. abdomen: shorter than hind wings, dark brown; a longitudinal dark stripe in the middle. male genitalia (fig. 2B): gonarcus strongly bended, ossification weak; basal part of parameres combined, distal part fork-like; mediuncus ossification strong, developed; female terminalia (Fig. 2 C): ectoproct narrow with dense long setae; 8-interior gonapophysis short and small with dense long setae. 8-external gonapophysis finger-like, developed with dense long setae; 9-interior gonapophysis developed with dense digging setae; 9-external gonapophysis small and short.
Material examined. 1♀, Emeishan mountain, Sichuan Province, 1961. VIII. 23, Jikun Yang, CAU-N100069; 1♂, Fanjingshan mountain, 1340 m, Guizhou Province, 2001. VII. 27, Xia Wan, CAU-N100064; 1♀, Baizushan Mountain, Zhejiang Province, 1993. VIII.1, Hong Wu, CAU-N100067; 1♂, Sangang, Fujian Province, 1980. X. 11, Fan Jiang, CAU-N100063; 1♀, Xingshan, Hubei Province, 1300 mm, 1980. VII.20, Jikun Yang, CAU-N100060; 1♀, Baiyunshan Mountain, 1300m, Henan Province, 2002. VII.22, Rong Bao, CAU-N100058. 1♀, Guizhou Sinan, 1974. VIII.25, Guiqing Wang, CAU-N100062; 1♀, Sichuan Wanxian, 1200m, 1993. VIII.10, Xingke Yang, CAU- N100068.
Type material examined. Holotype 1 ♂, Ningpo(Ninghsien) Mts., China, 1900.VI, Haberer Distribution. China: Zhejiang, Fujian, Henan, Hubei, and Shaanxi Provinces
description: Published as part of Zhan, Qingbin & Wang, Xinli, 2014, A review of the genus Bullanga Navás, 1917 (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), pp. 195-200 in Zootaxa 3872 (2) on pages 198-199, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/229978