Sisyra delicata Smithers 1957: 225

Oliver S. Flint, Jr., 2012, New species, records, and a synonymy of African Sisyridae (Neuroptera, Insecta Mundi 2012 (223), pp. 1-6 : 4

Sisyra delicata Smithers 1957: 225 .

Sisyra pallida Meinander 1978: 234 . New Synonymy.

Comments. I have compared the male type and topotypic paratypes of these two species, side-by-side, and can see no specific differences between them. The coxopodites of both share the apical, tooth-like seta; apicomesal, fimbriate lobe with another tooth-like seta at its mesal base; two enlarged setae dorsomesally and another enlarged setae apicolaterally, and, small basomesal lobe with a few apical setae. The type localities are both in south-central Africa: S. delicata from the environs of Salisbury [now Harare] in Zimbabwe and S. pallida from about 600 miles north at Mpulungu at the south end of Lake Tanganyika in Zambia.