Taxonomic notes on the antlion tribe Myrmeleontini Latreille (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae, Myrmeleontinae) from Pakistan, with description of a new species Author Hassan, Muhammad Asghar 75F6DE8B-B0AB-490A-8F3F-B6E2ED7A5BBD Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China. m.hassan93@cau.edu.cn Author Zheng, Yuchen BF21BD87-76FF-48E0-A75C-29C7F473C79E Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China. s20193192649@cau.edu.cn Author Liu, Xingyue 9BA429B5-F2CB-44BF-BF8E-4D70D016B06B Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China. xingyue_liu@yahoo.com text European Journal of Taxonomy 2022 2022-07-18 831 1 44 http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.831.1867 journal article 100341 10.5852/ejt.2022.831.1867 ad320da4-c372-4775-a5b0-00c299d40c1a 2118-9773 6862200 752825D9-49B3-456C-8692-8DE2844593B1 Myrmeleon bore ( Tjeder, 1941 ) Grocus bore Tjeder, 1941: 74 . Type localities: Sweden and Norway . Myrmeleon exigus Yang, 1999: 148 . Type locality: China ( Fujian : Dongshan). Myrmeleon tschernovi Krivokhatsky & Shapoval, 2014: 173 . Type locality: Russia . Diagnosis Myrmeleon bore can be characterized by wholly dark brown vertex without yellow markings and the pronotum with lateral margins narrowly yellow on proximal half ( Aspöck et al. 1980 : fig. 822; Ábrahám & Papp 1991 : fig. 2; Monserrat & Acevedo 2013 : fig. 39; Tillier et al. 2013 : fig. 13; Ábrahám & Giacomino 2020 : fig. 3), while the species recorded from Pakistan have yellow markings on a vertex in dorsal view and the pronotum medially brownish yellow ( Akhtar et al. 2018 : fig. 2a). This character suggests that the specimens from Pakistan identified as Myrmelon bore belong to a different species. Remarks Myrmeleon bore seems widely distributed in the Palaearctic Region and was recently recorded from Pakistan . Notably, Enza otiosus Navás, 1912 has long been considered a secondary synonym of M. bore ( Stange 2004 ; Sekimoto 2014 ; Wang et al . 2018 ). However, based on the priority of the nomenclature of the ICZN (International Code of Zoological Nomenclature), the validity of E. otiosus should be restored and transferred to Myrmeleon , then M. bore should be treated as a synonym of the former. Meanwhile, Kuwayama (1962) did not treat E. otiosus as a synonym for M. bore formally. Considering the type localities between E. otiosus ( holotype in Japan ) and M. bore ( syntypes in Sweden and Norway ) have great distance, the relationship between both species needs to be further investigated. Hence, we do not include E. otiosus in the citation of M. bore . Distribution Pakistan ? Widespread in Palaearctic Region ( Röhricht 1998 ; Aspöck et al. 2001 ; Bao & Wang 2006 ; Akhtar et al. 2018 ; Yang et al. 2018 ; Hassan et al. 2019 ; Ábrahám & Giacomino 2020 ; Oswald 2020 ).