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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Genus
Baliga
Navás, 1912
Baliga
Navás, 1912b: 110
.
Type
species:
Myrmeleon asakurae
Okamoto, 1910: 297
. Original designation.
Balaga
Navás, 1912b: 111
.
Type
species:
Myrmeleon micans
McLachlan, 1875: 176
. Original designation.
Baga
Navás, 1930a: 37
.
Type
species:
Balaga montana
Navás, 1930a: 38
. Monotypy.
Diagnosis
Baliga
is quite similar to
Hagenomyia
and
Myrmeleon
but can be distinguished from
Hagenomyia
by the female anterior gonocoxites 8 relatively shorter than posterior gonocoxites 8 (these
two female
genital sclerites are nearly equal length in
Hagenomyia
) and from
Myrmeleon
by the presence of interconnected crossveins in the costal area of forewing (these interconnected crossveins are absent in
Myrmeleon
).
Distribution
Baliga
currently includes 17 described species, predominantly distributed in the Oriental (12 species) and Palaearctic regions (4 spp.:
China
,
Japan
, and
Korea
) with a single species in
Australia
(
Queensland
). It is widely distributed in the Oriental region:
Bangladesh
,
China
,
India
,
Myanmar
,
Sri Lanka
,
Vietnam
, and the main islands of
Indonesia
,
Malaysia
,
Micronesia
,
Philippines
,
Japan
, and
Korea
(
Ghosh 2000
;
Stange 2004
;
Bao
et al.
2007
;
Hayashi
et al.
2020
).