Découverte dans le Loiret de la deuxième station mondiale d’une espèce énigmatique de raphidie : Venustoraphidia conviventibus Monserrat & Papenberg, 2012 (Raphidioptera, Raphidiidae)

Discovery in the Loiret of the second world station of an enigmatic species of snakefly: Venustoraphidia conviventibus Monserrat & Papenberg, 2012 (Raphidioptera, Raphidiidae). Authors expose a recent capture of a male of Venustoraphidia conviventibus Monserrat & Papenberg, 2012, in the Loiret department (France), a species only known by a single male captured in Spain, in the Basque Country. The identification criteria are discussed and illustrated. A difference in the length of the pterostigma exists between the two west- European Venustoraphidia species: long in V. conviventibus, short in V. nigricollis (Albarda, 1891). Different hypotheses, including anthropogenic importation, are presented in order to explain the presence of this species in the Centre-Val de Loire.