Climaciella, Enderlein, 1910

Ardila-Camacho, Adrian, Calle-Tobón, Arley, Wolff, Marta & Stange, Lionel A., 2018, New species and new distributional records of Neotropical Mantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera), Zootaxa 4413 (2), pp. 295-324 : 313

Key to Colombian species of Climaciella

(after Ardila-Camacho & García 2015, modified)

1. Body predominantly black; prothorax bent ventrad at midlength in lateral view ( Ardila-Camacho & García 2015, Fig. 21a)....................................................................................................... 2

- Body predominantly dark reddish brown or with a mixture of black and yellow; prothorax straight in lateral view (Ardila- Camacho & García 2015, Fig. 17a)........................................................................ 4

2. Wings with anterior 3/4 dark amber, remainder membrane hyaline ( Fig. 3e )................... C. obtusa Hoffman, 2002

- Wings with anterior 1/2 amber........................................................................... 3

3. Wings with posterior 1/2 completely hyaline ( Fig. 7a ); forefemur with a transverse light brown stripe at the level of major spine ( Fig. 7e )............................................................................ C. rafaeli n. sp.

- Wings with posterior 1/2 bicolor, posterior region to first RP branch light amber, posterodistal wing region hyaline (Ardila- Camacho & García 2015, Fig. 21f); forefemur completely dark reddish brown to black.......................................................................... C. semihyalina (Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1825)

4. Body predominantly reddish brown; pronotum with a distinct hump at midlength in lateral view ( Ardila-Camacho & García 2015, Fig. 20b)................................................................... C. porosa Hoffman, 2002

- Body color pattern composed of a mixture of yellow and black ( Ardila-Camacho & García 2015, Fig. 17); pronotum with dorsal and ventral sides subparallel in lateral view, without a distinct hump...................... C. amapaensis Penny, 1982

Figures

FIGURE 7. Climaciella rafaeli n. sp.: a, fore- and hindwing; b, head and thorax, lateral view; c, head, frontal view; d, head and thorax, dorsal view; e, forefemur, outer surface; f, same, ventrolateral view.

FIGURE3. Habitus of Mantispidae spp.: a, Anchieta fasciatella (Westwood), male (photo by David Bowles); b, Paralectotype of Mantispa (Trichoscelia) iridella Westwood, female (photo by Amoret Spooner, OUM, Oxford); c, Holotype of Trichoscelia anae Penny, male (photo by Thiago Mahlmann, INPA, Manaus); d, Buyda immaculata n. sp.; e, Climaciella obtusa Hoffman, male (photo by Guillermo Guarin-Candamil, MEFLG, Medellín); f, Leptomantispa axillaris (Navás), male.