Mantispilla boliviana Navás

Mantispilla boliviana Navás, 1927: 58. Holotype or syntypes: female (CN). Type locality: Bolivia: Santa Cruz: Buena Vista .

Notes.

The status of this species is similar to the previous one. It was described in the same publication (Navás 1927), also from Bolivia, but from Buena Vista in the department of Santa Cruz, based on one or more females. After that, the species was only listed by Penny (1977) and included in the world catalogue (Ohl 2004) in the genus Mantispa . As in M. basalis above, the female sex is mentioned, but it is unclear, if one or more specimens were available. The type material is also supposedly deposited in Navás’ collection, but we could not find any information about it. Different from the previous species, the original description of M. boliviana is more unspecific, which prevents us from unambiguously associating it with one of the genera from South America. Based solely on the original description it is almost impossible to associate this species with one of the current valid genera, and for this reason and the absence of the type series, we are herein considering this species as a nomen dubium.