Jaya dasymalla (Gerstaecker, 1863)

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

Jaya dasymalla (Gerstaecker, 1863)

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 widespread in Africa (Mansell, pers. com; Oswald 2013), particularly in south-eastern part of Africa, from Tanzania to South Africa (Mozambique included) according to Prost (1996); in Stange (2004), this taxa was reported in Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia; recently this species has been reported also in a generical forestry coastal area of North-eastern Mozambique ( Pascal 2011). Nevertheless I was able to find in literature only some specimens cited for a precise locality (in the Illustrated database of African Neuroptera (http://www.africamuseum.be/collections/browsecollections/naturalsciences/biology/neuroptera/collection), 37 localities are reported, mostly from South Africa and a very few from Somalia): the present female specimen is the first cited for a precise locality in Mozambique.