New data on Neuroptera and Raphidioptera of Mordovia (Russia)

Abstract

New faunistic data for 30 species of Neuroptera and two species of Raphidioptera from the Republic of Mordovia (Russia) are reported. Eleven species of Neuroptera and one species of Raphidioptera are new for this region: Sisyra terminalis (Sisyridae), Megalomus hirtus, Wesmaelius nervosus, W. mortoni, Hemerobius marginatus, H. nitidulus, Sympherobius pygmaeus (Hemerobiidae), Nineta flava, Chrysopa gibeauxi, Ch. dasyptera, Cunctochrysa albolineata (Chrysopidae), and Xanothostigma xanthostigma (Raphidiidae). Neuroptera collected by fermenting bait traps in canopies of various, mainly deciduous trees at the height of 5–10 m are represented almost exclusively by all known Mordovian chrysopid species of the genera Nineta, Pseudomallada, Chrysoptropia and Chrysoperla. Adults of all these species are phytophagous or glycophagous. Of these, Pseudomallada prasinus, Nineta alpicola and Chrysotropia ciliata were most numerous (Table 1). All 22 specimens of Nothochrysa fulviceps were collected by fermenting bait traps on Quercus robur

Keywords

• Neuroptera
• Raphidioptera
• fauna
• Republic of Mordovia
• Russia