A revision of the genus Solter Navás, 1912 for Maghreb and West Africa with descriptions of five new species (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae)
Author
Michel, Bruno
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Zootaxa
2014
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3887.5.2
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9.
Solter rothschildi
Navás, 1913b
Figs 51–55
,
75, 76
,
85
.
Solter rothschildi
Navás, 1913b
: 450
.
FIGURES 45–50.
Solter neglectus
. 45—Habitus of lectotype ♀ (MNHN). 46—Face. 47—Last segment of labial palp. 48—Head and thorax, dorsal view. 49—Hind tarsus. 50—Abdominal sternite 7 of female. (Legend as in fig. 5).
FIGURES 51–55.
Solter rothschildi
. 51—Habitus of lectotype ♂ (BMNH). 52—Face. 53—Last segment of labial palp. 54—Head and thorax, dorsal view. 55—Hind tarsus. (Legend as in fig. 5).
In his description Navás did not designate a specimen as
holotype
and all the specimens of the
type
series in the Museum of Natural History in London are labeled as
syntypes
. Consequently a
lectotype
is designated here and four others specimens of the
type
series I examined are designated as
paralectotypes
.
Redescription.
Medium-sized species (
Fig. 51
). Forewing
24–26 mm
, hind wing
22–24 mm
. Body almost uniformly ochre yellow to light brown. Bands of abdominal tergites with low contrasting colors. Last segment of labial palp slightly swollen, spindle-shaped (
Fig.53
); palpimacula small and oval. Tibial spurs of fore and mid legs extending beyond tarsomere 2, slightly shorter than tarsomeres 1+
2 in
hind legs (
Fig 55
). Female sternite 7 largely rounded apically. Spermatheca without sharp bent angle (
Fig. 85
). In male, gonarcus regularly arched (
Fig. 75
,). Parameres rectangular with posterior surface flat and inner edge of basal half strongly raised forward (
Fig. 76
).
Material examined.
Lectotype
♂
ALGERIA
wadi Mya
[approx. 29.14710 3.34127]
18.v.1912
.
Paralectotypes
ALGERIA
South of
Ghardaïa
2♀♀
26–30.v.1912
, Hartert & Hilg.
leg.
;
wadi Nssa
(Ghardaïa to Guerrara) 2♀♀
3–5.vi.1912
, Hartert & Hilg.
leg
. (all
BMNH
1927-307).
Distribution
(
Fig. 86
). Known from
Algeria
,
Tunisia
and
Egypt
(
Aspöck
et al
., 2001
;
Stange, 2004
).