Taxonomic Notes on the Mantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) from Japan

Abstract

Japanese Mantispidae are revised, redescribed and illustrated with details of male and female terminalia. The following seven species are recognised: Austroclimaciella quadrituberculata (Westwood, 1852); Euclimacia badia Okamoto, 1910; Eumantispa harmandi (Navás, 1909); Tuberonotha strenua (Gerstaecker, 1894); Necyla shirozui (Nakahara, 1961); Mantispilla japonica (McLachlan, 1875); and M. transversa Stitz, 1913. In addition, we propose synonymising A. habutsuella (Okamoto, 1910) and A. subfusca (Nakahara, 1912) with A. quadrituberculata and M. j. diminuta Matsumura, 1907 with M. japonica.

Keywords

• japanese archipelago
• biogeography
• taxonomy
• mantispinae
• mantisfly