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Dicromantispa

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Description

Dicromantispa is a genus of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae. There are about 10 described species in Dicromantispa.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicromantispa, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2107975	https://www.gbif.org/species/2107975
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	260443	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=260443

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Neuroptera : Mantispidae : Dicromantispa

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
superorder	Neuropterida
-	Eidoneuroptera	Engel et al. 2018
order	Neuroptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Euneuroptera	Engel et al. 2018
superfamily	Mantispoidea
family	Mantispidae	Leach 1815
subfamily	Mantispinae	Leach 1815
genus	Dicromantispa	Hoffman 2002-21

Scientific Name

Dicromantispa Hoffman, 2002-21

Name Published In

Penny, Norman D., ed., 2002: A Guide to the Lacewings (Neuroptera) of Costa Rica. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, vol. 53, no. 12. 161-457.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Dicromantispa	genus	belongs to Mantispinae	stated with evidence	Hoffman, 2002
Dicromantispa	genus	belongs to Mantispidae	stated with evidence	Engel and Grimaldi, 2007
Dicromantispa	genus	belongs to Mantispinae	stated with evidence	Jepson, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (33%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

K. M. Hoffman. 2002. Mantispidae, in A guide to the lacewings (Neuroptera) of Costa Rica. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 53:251-275

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicromantispa

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Dicromantispa debilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicromantispa electromexicana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Dicromantispa gracilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicromantispa hyalina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicromantispa interrupta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicromantispa leucophaea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicromantispa moronei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Dicromantispa moulti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicromantispa sayi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicromantispa synapsis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
2002	Dicromantispa Hoffman p. 258
2007	Dicromantispa Engel and Grimaldi p. 10
2015	Dicromantispa Jepson p. 420

References

Hoffman K. M. (2002) Mantispidae, in A guide to the lacewings (Neuroptera) of Costa Rica, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 53, 251-275

Engel M. S., Grimaldi D. A. (2007) The neuropterid fauna of Dominican and Mexican amber (Neuropterida: Megaloptera, Neuroptera), American Museum Novitates 3587, 1-58

Jepson J. E. (2015) A review of the current state of knowledge of fossil Mantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera), Zootaxa 3964, 419-432

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006/ITIS - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

in Hoffman, Meinander, Monserrat, Penny & Stange, Proc Calif Acad Sci 53 (12), October 21 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ohl, Michael, 2004: Annotated catalog of the Mantispidae of the World (Neuroptera). Contributions on Entomology, International, vol. 5, no. 3. 131-262. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Penny, Norman D., ed., 2002: A Guide to the Lacewings (Neuroptera) of Costa Rica. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, vol. 53, no. 12. 161-457. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Reynoso-Velasco, Daniel, and Atilano Contreras-Ramos, 2008: Mantispidae (Neuroptera) of Mexico: Distribution and Key to Genera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, vol. 101, no. 4. 703-712. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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