Bittacus boraceiensis Morgante, 1967

Machado, Renato Jose Pires, Mendes, Diego Matheus De Mello & Rafael, José Albertino, 2018, The genus Bittacus Latreille (Insecta: Mecoptera) in Brazil: key to species, distribution maps, new synonym, and three new species, Zootaxa 4526 (3), pp. 303-330 : 306

Bittacus boraceiensis Morgante, 1967

( Figs. 6b , 8d , 12b )

Bittacus boraceiensis: Morgante, 1967:57 ; Penny & Byers, 1979b:367; Machado et al., 2009:36; Machado, 2018.

Thyridates boraceiensis: Willmann, 1983:50 ; Collucci & Amorim, 2000:2.

Holotype: male: MZSP (examined). Species known from São Paulo ( Fig. 12b ).

Bittacus boraceiensis is known only by the holotype from the Biological Station of Boracéia in São Paulo state. The species also has heavily spotted wings, but it can be easily separated from other spotted-wing species by the very characteristic shape of the male epandrium (only species with three actniform processes).

Figures

FIGURE 6. Bittacus wings. a) B. diversinervis; b) B. boraceiensis, holotype forewing; c) B. femoralis, forewing; d) B. latreillei, forewing. A = anal; cc = costal crossvein; Cu = cubital; M = medial; pt = pterostigma; pt c = pterostigmal crossvein; R = radial; Rs = radial sector; Sc = Subcosta. Scale bars = 1 mm.

FIGURE 8. Brazilian Bittacus male epandria, dorsal view. a) B. angrensis; b) B. aripuanensis; c) B. blancheti; d) B. boraceiensis; e) B. brasiliensis; f) B. cruzi sp. n.; g) B. diversinervis; h) B. femoralis; i) B. ferreirai sp. n.; j) B. flavescens; k) B. froehlichi; l) B. genicutalus; m) B. latreillei; n) B. maculosus; o) B. omega; p) B. pintoi; q) B. varzeanus sp. n.

FIGURE 12. Distribution records of Bittacus species in Brazil. a) B. angrensis, B. aripuanensis, B. blancheti, B. brasiliensis, B. brunipennis; b) B. boraceiensis, B. cruzi sp. n., B. diversinervis, B. femoralis; c) B. ferreirai sp. n., B. flavescens, B. froehlichi, B. latreillei; d) B. maculosus, B. omega, B. pintoi, B. varzeanus sp. n. Bittacus geniculatus is not represented because of its imprecise location.