Nampista auriventris
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Nampista auriventris is a seldom found species of the captive with habitat in the eastern Mediterranean, in Arabia and in Central Asia.
description
Nampista auriventris reaches a body length of 15 to 16.8 millimeters, the fore wing length is between 16.1 and 18.2 millimeters. The head and trunk of the species are red-brown in color, with bright yellow mandibles , labrum , clypeus , frons and parts of the forehead ( vertex ). The base of the pronotum bears yellow and black elements. The abdomen is three-colored: tergites five and six are bright yellow, a transverse band at the base of the first tergite, tergites three, four and seven are black. The rest of the abdomen is reddish dark brown to blackish. The forewing is transparent (hyaline) and has a uniform yellowish tint, with a small, darkened spot on the wing tip.
The species of the genus Nampista have a number of morphological peculiarities that make them unmistakable among the European captives. The whale members of the antennae are drawn out into a widened lamella on one side. The antenna of the males is much wider and more robust than that of the females (sexual dimorphism). The prothorax is elongated and narrowed, but less than in the species of the genus Mantispa , it is less long than the pterothorax (the second and third trunk segment together, on which the wings are attached). Also noticeable is a "Tergal window", a widened intersegmental skin between the abdominal segments one and two, which is colored yellow. The structure of the antennae and the only short-toothed claws of the tarsi of the second and third pair of legs differ from the species of the genus Euclimacia . From the other two species in the genus, Nampista auriventris differs most easily on the basis of the color of the wings and abdomen.
distribution
Nampista auriventris is a seldom found species. Only five specimens have been recorded in Greece in the past fifty years. During the genus revision, the entomologist Michael Ohl found a total of only 21 specimens of the striking species in the European museum collections. There are finds from Greece including the islands of Rhodes and Crete, from the Anatolian Aegean coast, from Israel, Syria and Egypt (only one animal, from the oasis Siwa ). Other finds are from Oman on the Arabian Peninsula, from Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan.
Taxonomy
The genus Nampista includes only three species, the other two are common in East Africa and Arabia. Nampista auriventris is the only European species. The species was first described as Mantispa auriventris by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville . Synonyms are Mantispa apicalis Loew, 1843, Nampista speciosa Navás, 1914, Forciada relicta Kozhanchikov, 1949. Under the synonym Nampista speciosa , it is the type species of the genus.
swell
- Michael Ohl (2009): A revision of the mantispid genus Nampista (Neuropterida, Mantispidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 85 (2): 189-198. doi : 10.1002 / zoos.200900003
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alinaghi Mirmoayedi, Ahmed Zia, Muhammad Ather Rafi (2012): New Records of Mantispid Flies (Neuroptera: Mantispidae) from Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 44 (4): 1171-1174.