Cueta mysteriosa (Gerstaecker, 1893)

Letardi, Agostino, 2014, Note on some antlions from Mozambique (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1050-1050 : 1050

Cueta mysteriosa (Gerstaecker, 1893)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: P. Cerretti, D. Birtele, A. Campanaro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Location: country: Mozambique; verbatimLocality: Matutuine, distr. Tinti Gala Lodge; verbatimLatitude: 26°38'44.3"S; verbatimLongitude: 32°50'25.1"E; Event: samplingProtocol: light trap; eventDate: 31.I.2008; Record Level: institutionCode: CNBFVR

Distribution

An antlion is very widespread in sub-Saharan Africa ( Stange 2004, Oswald 2013), from Ivory Coast and Somalia to South Africa (in the Illustrated database of African Neuroptera , 37 localities are reported, mostly from eastern area of South Africa, some from Kenya; in GBIF (2013) is reported a locality from Tanzania; other 6 localities from Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania are reported in the database of Information System ZInsecta (http://www.zin.ru/projects/ZInsecta/eng/ZInsecta.asp). Two species of the same genus ( Cueta mosambica and Cueta heynei ), likely synonyms of Cueta mysteriosa (Mansell, per. comm.), have been cited in Mozambique ( Navás 1914, Navás 1915), and recently (as Cueta cf. mysteriosa ) the taxon has been reported for a generical forestry coastal area of North-eastern Mozambique ( Pascal 2011), so the present report is the first for a precise locality of Mozambique after more than a century.