Taxonomic notes on owlflies from Pakistan (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae Ascalaphinae)
Author
Hassan, Muhammad Asghar
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Author
Liu, Xingyue
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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Zootaxa
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2021-05-17
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Suhpalacsa orsedice
Banks, 1914
Suhpalacsa orsedice
Banks, 1914: 617
.
Type
locality:
India
(
West Bengal
:
Darjeeling
,
Singla
).
Suhpalacsa orsedicae
Banks, 1914
. An incorrect spelling used by Sziráki (1988, 2000).
Diagnosis.
Suhpalacsa orsedice
can be characterized by the combination of following characters: the head with lower margin of face yellow; the pale brown antenna which becomes darker at apex; thorax dark with slightly pale brown in the middle; abdomen dark in female, but the abdominal tergum in male yellowish, sternum pale with black stripe along the lateral margins; legs black, except brownish proximal margin of femora; wings hyaline, veins brownish; pterostigma brown, as long as wide, with four crossveins in forewing and five in hind wing, and the apical area beyond Sc+R with two rows of cells.
Distribution.
Pakistan
(
Islamabad Capital Territory
);
India
(
Arunachal Pradesh
,
West Bengal
),
Nepal
(Ganesh Himal) (
Banks 1914
;
Ghosh 1985
;
Sziráki 2000
;
Hassan
et al.
2019
;
Oswald 2020
).