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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Genus
Ascalohybris
Sziráki, 1998
Ascalohybris
Sziráki, 1998: 59
.
Type
species:
Ascalaphus javana
Burmeister, 1839: 1001
. Original designation.
Hybris
Lefèbvre, 1842: 6
.
Type
species:
Ascalaphus javana
Burmeister, 1839: 1001
. Original designation.
Diagnosis.
Ascalohybris
can be distinguished from
Glyptobasis
McLachlan
and
Nousera
Navás
by the lack of distinct triangular projection on the anal area in forewing and from all other split-eyed owlfly genera except
Acheron
by the presence of three rows of cells beyond Sc+R vein (
van der Weele 1909
: fig. 184).
FIGURE 8.
Glyptobasis dentifera
(Westwood)
. Female, habitus. Scale bar: 5.0 mm.
Note.
The genus
Hybris
was originally described by
Lefèbvre (1842)
, with
Ascalaphus javana
Burmeister, 1839
as the
type
species, but later recognized as a junior homonym of a bird genus (
Aves
),
Hybris
Nitzsch, 1833
by
Oswald & Penny (1991)
.
Sziráki (1998)
in the annotated checklist of
Ascalaphidae
from Asia and the Pacific Islands provided a new name for
Hybris
, i.e.,
Ascalohybris
Sziráki, 1998
. Currently
Ascalohybris
includes a single species,
Ascalohybris javana
(
Burmeister, 1839
)
in
Pakistan
. In the annotated checklist of
Ascalaphidae
from Asia and the Pacific Islands,
Sziráki (1998)
recorded this sepcies from
Pakistan
(
Sindh province
: Karachi). Other records about the exact locality, number of specimens or distribution data in
Pakistan
are not available. No new specimens were recorded in this study.