Climaciella obtusa Hoffman, 2002, 1992

Climaciella obtusa Hoffman, 2002 View in CoL

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Climaciella obtusa Hoffman, 2002: 254 View in CoL , male, female. Holotype: male, Ecuador ( FSCA)

Specimen examined. Colombia: Valle del Cauca: El Darien, 9.V.2017, no collector, mist net for birds ( 1♂ — MEFLG).

Diagnosis. Body almost totally black, posterior margin of eyes orange, pronotum very dark reddish brown ventrally. Foreleg with apex of coxa, trochanter and area surrounding the sub-basal spine at outer and inner surfaces orange-reddish. Prothorax bent ventrad at mid-length in lateral view. Wings with anterior 3/4 dark amber, remainder membrane hyaline ( Fig. 3e View FIGURE3 ). Male tergites 5 and 6 with anterolateral patches of pores, each one composed by 18‒36 circular pores; intersegmental membrane between these segments expanded into a bilobed pocket, extended 1/3 the length of the tergite 5. Male genitalia with ventromedial lobe of ectoproct flattened, bearing 50‒65 short and thick setae. Sternite 9 pentagonal in ventral view, scoop-like in lateral view, posteromedially produced into a short and rounded lobe. Gonarcus median lobe spine-like. Hypomeres present as paired ellipsoid lateral sclerites. Pseudopenis spine-like in posterior view, slightly longer than pseudopenal membrane, apex broadly rounded to truncate, with basal half or more as wide as base. Pseudopenal membrane broadly triangular.

Distribution. Colombia ( Magdalena, Valle del Cauca), Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama ( Hoffman 2002).

Comments. This mantispid species can be found in lowland forests of Central America and Northern South America from 400 to 1450 m.a.s.l. ( Hoffman 2002; Ardila-Camacho & García 2015). Adults have been collected in February, May to August and October ( Hoffman 2002; Ardila-Camacho & García 2015). The immature stages and spider hosts are unknown. In the same way as C. semihyalina and C. brunnea (“synoeca” morph) ( Opler 1981), C. obtusa has a Batesian mimicry pattern resembling some vespid wasp species of the genera Polybia Lepeletier and Synoeca de Saussure , although the possible species model have not been identified ( Hoffman 2002; Ardila- Camacho & García 2015).