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
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2022
2022-07-18
831
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.831.1867
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Myrmeleon noacki
Ohm, 1965
Myrmeleon noacki
Ohm, 1965: 108
.
Type
locality:
Greece
(
West Greece
: Zachlorou).
Diagnosis
Myrmeleon noacki
can be characterized by a wholly dark brown vertex, without yellow markings; pronotum dark brown, laterally yellow, medially with a narrow longitudinal yellow line at proximal half wings lack pipula axillaris in males; apex of male gonocoxites 9 narrowly arcuated at anterolateral margins in ventral view.
Note
Myrmeleon noacki
is known from the southeastern parts of Europe to
Turkey
, and was recently reported from
Iran
and
Pakistan
(
Akhtar
et al.
2018
;
Hajiesmaeilian
et al.
2020
). The reports of
Myrmelon noacki
from
Pakistan
need to be re-evaluated and compared with European specimens. Typically, this species is characterized by a narrow median longitudinal yellow marking at proximal half of pronotum and the male genitalia with gonocoxites 9 at anterolateral margins arcuated at anterolateral margins at apex in ventral view (see
Ohm 1965
: figs 2, 6;
Hajiesmaeilian
et al.
2020
: figs 10, 14). The prothoracic markings and the shape of male genitalia of this species recorded from
Pakistan
match the typical diagnosis for
M. paghmanus
: pronotum dark brown, medially with a narrow longitudinal yellow marking, rounded at middle; male gonocoxites 9 arcuate at distal margin in ventral view (see
Akhtar
et al.
2018
: fig. 5a–b;
Hölzel 1972
: figs 97, 101–102). No new specimens of this species were found in this study.
Distribution
Pakistan
: Azad Kashmir (District Bagh); Gilgit-Baltistan (District Gilgit);
Bulgaria
,
Greece
,
Macedonia
,
Iran
,
Turkey
(
Aspöck
et al.
2001
;
Pantaleoni & Badano 2012
;
Akhtar
et al.
2018
;
Hassan
et al.
2019
;
Hajiesmaeilian
et al.
2020
;
Oswald 2020
).