A New Species of Moranida Mansell from Venezuela (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae)

Authors

Robert B. Miller, Project City, CA
Lionel A. Stange, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FLFollow

Date of this Version

March 1989

Comments

Published in Insecta Mundi Vol. 3, No. 1, March 1989. Copyright © 1989 Miller and Stange.

Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/.

Abstract

Mansell (1983) described two new species and genera of Crocinae from Peru and Bolivia bringing the total number of South American species of this subfamily to five species. However, all five species occur well south of the equator. Recently the authors discovered a sixth species in northern Venezuela greatly extending the northern range of the family in South America. This new species belongs to the genus Moranida Mansell. Both adults and larvae were found and are described here with a key to the species of Crocinae of South America. We also found and reared Moranida peruviensis Mansell from Lambayeque, Peru, and provide this new record. This paper represents contribution No. 645 of the Bureau of Entomology.