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Háva, J.–Badano, D.:Tuberonotha campioni (Navás, 1914) (Neuroptera: Mantispidae) new for Vietnam
Natura Somogyiensis 30: 71-74. Kaposvár, 2017 HU ISSN 20613067 www.smmi.hu/termtud/ns/ns.htm Submitted: 11.01, 2017; Accepted: 30.04, 2017; Published: 30.06, 2017 Tuberonotha campioni (Navás, 1914) (Neuroptera: Mantispidae) new for Vietnam Jirí Hava1 & Davide Badano2 'Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamycká 1176, CZ-165 21, Prague 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic e-mail: jh.dermestidae@volny.cz 2CNR-IBAF, National Research Council - Institute of Agroenvironmental and Forest Biology, via Salaria km 29,300,1-0015 Monterotondo Scalo (RM) e-mail: davide.badano@gmail.com Hava, J. & Badano, D.: Tuberonotha campioni (Navás, 1914) (Neuroptera: Mantispidae) new for Vietnam. Abstract: Tuberonotha campioni (Navás, 1914) is newly recorded from Vietnam. Keywords: faunistics, new record, Neuroptera, Mantispidae, Mantispinae, Vietnam Introduction The genus Tuberonotha Handschin, 1961 comprises 6 species of large, wasp-mimicking mantisflies (Neuroptera Mantispidae), and is widely distributed in the Oriental and Australasian regions (Handschin 1961, New 1998, Ohl 2004, Yang & Liu 2011). The species of Tuberonotha are easily recognizable from the several other mantisflies with a similar Batesian mimicry present in the region, e.g. Euclimacia Handschin, Mimetispa Handschin and Austroclimaciella Handschin, by the relatively short pronotum (less than 4 times longer than wide) with large tubercles giving it a characteristic stepped profile. The shape of antennae and the not forked forewing vein 2 A readily set apart Tuberonotha from the large species of Euclimacia (New 1998). However, like other Oriental genera of mantispids, Tuberonotha is in great need of taxonomic revision. The biology of this genus remains poorly known. Kuroko (1961) described the eggs and the 1st instar larva of the most widely distributed species, T. strenua Gerstaecker (sub Climaciella magna Miyake). The larvae are probably specialized predators of spider eggs, like the other members of subfamily Mantispinae (Redborg, 1998). Material and methods All the examined specimens are deposited in the collection of first author: JHAC - Jiri Háva, Private Entomological Laboratory & Collection, Únétice u Prahy, Prague-West, Czech Republic.
