Buyda neotropica

Buyda neotropica (Navás) Fig. 14 Mantispa neotropica Navás, 1933: 309. Lectotype: male (MNHN). Type locality: French Guiana: Nouveau Chantier. Notes. The status of this species is very similar to M. confluens. In the original description, Navás (1933) mentioned a female and presented two illustrations: the pronotum and the tip of a forewing. After that, the name was listed by Penny (1977) and included in the catalogue by Ohl (2004). Tauber et al. (2017) stated that although Navás (1933) explicitly mentioned a single female, they could locate a single male only in the MNHN. According to their interpretation, it is unclear if Navás had more than one specimen, but he might also have indicated the wrong sex of the holotype. Tauber et al. (2017) designated the single male specimen in the MNHN as the lectotype. Later, Snyman et al. (2018) transferred the species to Buyda without any explicit justification, and finally Ardila-Camacho et al. (2018) synonymized the species under B. phthisica (Gerstaecker), but without studying the type. After analyzing the lectotype, we herein confirm the synonymy proposed by Ardila-Camacho et al. (2018). The lectotype of M. neotropica has all the major characters of B. phthisica, and the description and figures presented by Navás (1933) also matches with B. phthisica.