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The mistaken catchy , scientific name Mantispa aphavexelte , is a species from the catchy family with a habitat in southern and central Europe. The species was not described until 1994, after associated individuals, including the authors of the first description themselves, were confused with other species for decades. The scientific name of the species also alludes to it as a play on words.
description
It is a medium-sized species with a fore wing length of 9 to 13.8 millimeters for the male and 10 to 14.2 millimeters for the female. It is colored yellow with brown markings. The species has the typical body shape of the catchy , with a very elongated, narrow pronotum and forelegs that have been converted into catching legs. The species is superficially similar to a praying mantis due to the mantis and the triangular, very mobile head with large complex eyes , but due to the development of the wings and the attachment point of the forelegs (in the case of the praying mantis about in the middle, in the case of the catching at the front end of the pronotum) is easily distinguishable.
The confused Fanghaft can only be distinguished from the other European species of the genus Mantispa by genital morphology. As field features that enable determination in most cases, it can be distinguished by the following features: The prothorax is greatly elongated, longer than the other two trunk segments put together, the diameter of its collar-like front section is at most half its length. The wing membrane is crystal clear (hyaline) or slightly yellowish, not smoky brown as in Mantispa perla . The wing mark or pterostigma is relatively narrow and continuously widened, not as with Mantispa styriaca abruptly widened towards the end (distal) and here triangular, in addition it is colored yellow in color, not darkened distally ocher brown. The inner side of the fore legs is predominantly dark brown in the center with an embedded yellow spot of varying extent, which is missing in the related species, but very rarely and in exceptional cases it can also be reduced in the case of confused captivity. The pronotum is colored yellow, on both sides on the upper side with an elongated brown stripe. The species can be determined with the Monserrat identification key.
distribution
The species is widespread in the entire Mediterranean region (holomediterranean), in southern Europe, the Aegean region and Morocco in North Africa. It is also found in Anatolia, Armenia and Central Asia, east to Mongolia. Surprisingly, the species was also newly detected for Germany in 2011 at Bausenberg near Niederzissen , Rhineland-Palatinate, previously it was assumed for a long time that there was only a Central European species of the genus with the Styrian mantispa styriaca . There are also finds of two individual animals from the Saarland. In Switzerland, there is one single find so far ( Neuchâtel / Neuchâtel) The distribution of the species is difficult to specify because of the confusion of nomenclature and the frequent mix-ups, but it certainly occurs in southern France and in Dalmatia, and the information from northern Hungary (as Mantispa icterica ) in this way, but it is not certain. It is possible that other Central European finds that have been considered as Mantispa styriaca are actually this species. Whether and, if so, how far the species is distributed in East Asia is unclear until the synonymy of the species records given there has been clarified.
Way of life
Almost nothing is known about the biology and way of life of the species. As far as is known, the way of life corresponds to that of the other Mantispa species, with which they can also occur syntopically in the same habitat. Some of the finds come from oaks ( Quercus spp.).
Systematics and taxonomy
The taxonomy of the species is confused. The European finds were mostly attributed to the species Mantispa mandarina Navás, 1914 , until 1994 , but they are not identical to this East Asian species. Other authors named the same finds, following the Swiss entomologist Claude Poivre, Mantispa icterica (Pictet, 1865), but this name is actually a synonym for the Spanish Mantispa perla (Pallas, 1772). Because of this nomenclature confusion, a European species, which had in principle been known for a long time, existed without a valid name. This was then formally re-described in 1994 by Ulrike and Horst Aspöck as Mantispa aphavexelte . You ascribe the name in the work, not seriously, to a "Greek goddess of confusion", in fact one can easily interpret the species name (pronounced in Austrian) onomatopoeically.
The Near Eastern species Mantispa lobata Navás, 1912 and Mantispa adelungi Navás , 1912 are maintained as separate species in the revision of Aspöck and Aspöck, and they consider all European information for these species to be incorrect. This is doubted by the Spanish author Victor Jose Monserrat, who calls for further investigation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Kleinsteuber, Wieland Röhricht: Neuroptera (Planipennia), Echte Netzflügler. In: Bernhard Klausnitzer (Hrsg.): Stresemann - excursion fauna of Germany. Volume 2: Invertebrates: Insects. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag (Springer), 2011, ISBN 978-3-8274-2452-5 , p. 328.
- ↑ a b c U. Aspöck, H. Aspöck: To the nomenclature of the mantispids of Europe. In: Annals of the Natural History Museum Vienna. 96 B, 1994, pp. 99-114.
- ↑ a b c Víctor J. Monserrat: Los Mantíspidos de la Península Ibérica y Baleares (Insecta, Neuropterida, Mantispidae). In: Graellsia. 70 (2), 2014, p. E012. doi: 10.3989 / graellsia.2014.v70.115
- ↑ a b Manfred Niehuis, Alexander Blanke, Ralph S. Peters: The mistaken catchy catch (Mantispa aphavexelte U. Aspöck et H. Aspöck, 1994) detected in Rhineland-Palatinate (Neuroptera: Mantispidae). In: Fauna Flora in Rhineland-Palatinate. 12 (4), 2014, pp. 1393-1402.
- ^ André Schertenleib: Un individue de Mantispa aphavexelte Aspöck & Aspöck trouvé en Suisse: (Planipennia, Mantispidae). In: Bulletin romand d'entomologie. 20 (1), 2002, pp. 29-35.
- ^ Levente Abrahám, Zoltán Papp: Mantispids species in the Hungarian fauna with some taxonomical remarks. In: Folia Histőrico Naturalia Musei Matraensis. 19, 1994, pp. 69-75.