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can be characterized by the combination of the following characters: wing membrane hyaline, without markings (
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,
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); pterostigma dark brown to light brownish, usually wider than long, rhomboid-shaped; apical area beyond Sc+R with two rows of cells; forewing without triangular projection on the anal area. Moreover, the proximal 1/3 of flagellomeres in male with distinctly S-shaped (
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), but straight in female (
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); the mesoscutum anteromedially with a brownish triangular process (more prominent in male but smaller in female) (
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); the abdominal terga 46 with or without dense, long black setae in male (
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), absent in female (
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).
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<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FF6C24674B4AFCD5" bold="true" box="[199,262,855,881]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Note.</emphasis>
To date, eight species of the genus
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have been recorded from Asia and Pacific Islands (
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). Two of them, i.e.,
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<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FE18244B4810FC31" box="[435,604,891,917]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">A. abdominalis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="9201C5E2FF9C4145FDC0244B4950FC31" author="Kimmins, D." box="[619,796,891,917]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" pagination="1 - 29" refId="ref26581" refString="Kimmins, D. E (1949) Notes on Ascalaphidae in the British Museum collections, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12, 2, 1 - 29. [BotN ref # 3277] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222934908653955" type="journal article" year="1949">Kimmins, 1949</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FCF0244B49FBFC31" box="[859,951,891,917]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">A. dicax</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="9201C5E2FF9C4145FC16244B4E1EFC31" author="Walker, F." box="[957,1106,890,917]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" refId="ref28820" refString="Walker, F. (1853) Catalogue of the specimens of neuropterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II (Sialidae- Nemopterides). Newman, London, 284 pp. [pp. 193 - 476, BotN ref # 6194]" type="book" year="1853">Walker, 1853</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from
<collectingCountry id="8E87F883FF9C4145FB3C244B4EB5FC31" box="[1175,1273,891,917]" name="Pakistan" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Pakistan</collectingCountry>
, were listed as present in the National Museums of Scotland by
<bibRefCitation id="9201C5E2FF9C4145FD6F24AF49EDFC1D" author="Whittington, A. E." box="[708,929,927,953]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" pagination="371 - 387" refId="ref29063" refString="Whittington, A. E. (2002) Resources in Scottish Neuropterology. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 48, 371 - 387. [BotN ref # 10317]" type="journal article" year="2002">Whittington (2002)</bibRefCitation>
, but without precise location data. However,
<taxonomicName id="3190C390FF9C4145FF3C24F34BE0FC79" baseAuthorityName="Kimmins" baseAuthorityYear="1949" box="[151,428,963,989]" class="Insecta" family="Ascalaphidae" genus="Ascalaphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neuroptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abdominalis">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FF3C24F34BE0FC79" box="[151,428,963,989]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Ascalaphus abdominalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="3190C390FF9C4145FE4324F3480AFC79" authorityName="Walker" authorityYear="1853" box="[488,582,963,989]" class="Insecta" family="Ascalaphidae" genus="Ascalaphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neuroptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dicax">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FE4324F3480AFC79" box="[488,582,963,989]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">A. dicax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are widely distributed in
<collectingCountry id="8E87F883FF9C4145FCDA24F349E7FC79" box="[881,939,963,989]" name="India" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">India</collectingCountry>
(
<figureCitation id="6EABA496FF9C4145FC1724F34E5FFC79" box="[956,1043,963,989]" captionStart="FIGURE 27" captionStartId="43.[151,250,1920,1944]" captionTargetBox="[151,1437,1086,1894]" captionTargetId="figure-32@43.[151,1437,1080,1896]" captionTargetPageId="43" captionText="FIGURE 27. Distribution map of the Ascalaphus species from Asia." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4766645" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4766645/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Fig. 27</figureCitation>
). Despite no precise location, it is possible to infer that it was collected in the
<collectingRegion id="345476F1FF9C4145FD2E24D74971FBA5" box="[645,829,999,1025]" country="India" name="Punjab" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Punjab province</collectingRegion>
because of the distribution data of these species from the neighbouring countries, i.e.,
<collectingCountry id="8E87F883FF9C4145FDAC233B480DFB81" box="[519,577,1035,1061]" name="India" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">India</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="8E87F883FF9C4145FDD1233B48E7FB81" box="[634,683,1035,1061]" name="Iran" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Iran</collectingCountry>
. No new specimens were recorded in this study. The finding of
<taxonomicName id="3190C390FF9C4145FA2F233B4BB3FBED" authority="(Kimmins, 1949)" baseAuthorityName="Kimmins" baseAuthorityYear="1949" class="Insecta" family="Ascalaphidae" genus="Ascalaphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neuroptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="prothoracicus">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FA2F233B4B7FFBED" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">A. prothoracicus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="9201C5E2FF9C4145FEEF231F4BBBFBED" author="Kimmins, D." box="[324,503,1071,1097]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" pagination="1 - 29" refId="ref26581" refString="Kimmins, D. E (1949) Notes on Ascalaphidae in the British Museum collections, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12, 2, 1 - 29. [BotN ref # 3277] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222934908653955" type="journal article" year="1949">Kimmins, 1949</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
is a new record for
<collectingCountry id="8E87F883FF9C4145FD40231F4902FBED" box="[747,846,1071,1097]" name="Pakistan" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Pakistan</collectingCountry>
; the species was originally described from
<collectingCountry id="8E87F883FF9C4145FA95231F4F34FBED" box="[1342,1400,1071,1097]" name="India" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">India</collectingCountry>
by
<bibRefCitation id="9201C5E2FF9C4145FF3C23634B1EFBC9" author="Kimmins, D." box="[151,338,1107,1133]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" pagination="1 - 29" refId="ref26581" refString="Kimmins, D. E (1949) Notes on Ascalaphidae in the British Museum collections, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12, 2, 1 - 29. [BotN ref # 3277] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222934908653955" type="journal article" year="1949">Kimmins (1949)</bibRefCitation>
and placed in the genus
<taxonomicName id="3190C390FF9C4145FDDB236348BBFBC9" authorityName="McLachlan" authorityYear="1873" box="[624,759,1107,1133]" class="Insecta" family="Ascalaphidae" genus="Helicomitus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neuroptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FDDB236348BBFBC9" box="[624,759,1107,1133]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Helicomitus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Tjeder later (1972) considered
<taxonomicName id="3190C390FF9C4145FBCD23634EA1FBC9" authorityName="McLachlan" authorityYear="1873" box="[1126,1261,1107,1133]" class="Insecta" family="Ascalaphidae" genus="Helicomitus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neuroptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FBCD23634EA1FBC9" box="[1126,1261,1107,1133]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Helicomitus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as synonym of
<taxonomicName id="3190C390FF9C4145FF3C2347487FFB35" authority="(Oswald &amp; Penny 1991)" baseAuthorityName="Oswald &amp; Penny" baseAuthorityYear="1991" box="[151,563,1143,1169]" class="Insecta" family="Ascalaphidae" genus="Ascalaphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neuroptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FF3C23474B54FB35" box="[151,280,1143,1169]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Ascalaphus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="9201C5E2FF9C4145FE8C23474866FB35" author="Oswald, J. D. &amp; Penny, N. D." box="[295,554,1143,1169]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" pagination="1 - 94" refId="ref28351" refString="Oswald, J. D. &amp; Penny, N. D. (1991) Genus-group names of the Neuroptera, Megaloptera and Raphidioptera of the world. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, 147, 1 - 94. [BotN ref # 7138] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 3428" type="journal article" year="1991">Oswald &amp; Penny 1991</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. Prior to this study
<taxonomicName id="3190C390FF9C4145FCA72347498BFB35" baseAuthorityName="Kimmins" baseAuthorityYear="1949" box="[780,967,1143,1169]" class="Insecta" family="Ascalaphidae" genus="Ascalaphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neuroptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="prothoracicus">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FCA72347498BFB35" box="[780,967,1143,1169]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">A. prothoracicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was known only from
<collectingCountry id="8E87F883FF9C4145FB6223474F4FFB35" box="[1225,1283,1143,1169]" name="India" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">India</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="8E87F883FF9C4145FA9223474FD1FB35" box="[1337,1437,1143,1169]" name="Thailand" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Thailand</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="9201C5E2FF9C4145FF3423AB4B60FB11" author="Ghosh, S. K." box="[159,300,1179,1205]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" pagination="163 - 191" refId="ref26134" refString="Ghosh, S. K. (1988) Contribution to the taxonomical studies of Neuroptera (suborder Planipennia) from eastern India. II. Family Ascalaphidae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 85, 163 - 191. [BotN ref # 9656]" type="journal article" year="1988">Ghosh 1988</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="9201C5E2FF9C4145FE9C23AB4B87FB11" author="Michel, B." box="[311,459,1178,1205]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" pagination="217 - 223" refId="ref27277" refString="Michel, B. (2005) A contribution to knowledge of the owlflies of Thailand (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Berlin, 52, 217 - 223. [BotN ref # 11675] https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 200410013" type="journal article" year="2005">Michel 2005</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSection id="9F1FA1F8FF9C4145FF3C22374FD1FA49" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" type="key">
<subSubSection id="BE8AEB98FF9C4145FF3C223748D8FA84" box="[151,660,1286,1313]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" type="multiple">
<paragraph id="F62FB813FF9C4145FF3C223748D8FA84" blockId="6.[151,660,1286,1313]" box="[151,660,1286,1313]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">
<heading id="AD670F7FFF9C4145FF3C223748D8FA84" bold="true" box="[151,660,1286,1313]" fontSize="11" level="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" reason="1">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FF3C223748D8FA84" bold="true" box="[151,660,1286,1313]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">
Key to
<taxonomicName id="3190C390FF9C4145FF5A22364B31FA85" box="[241,381,1286,1313]" class="Insecta" family="Ascalaphidae" genus="Ascalaphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neuroptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FF5A22364B31FA85" bold="true" box="[241,381,1286,1313]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Ascalaphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species from
<collectingCountry id="8E87F883FF9C4145FD8C223648D8FA84" box="[551,660,1286,1312]" name="Pakistan" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Pakistan</collectingCountry>
</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="BE8AEB98FF9C4145FF3C22754FD1FA49" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" type="key">
<paragraph id="F62FB813FF9C4145FF3C22754FD0FADC" blockId="6.[151,1437,1349,1518]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">
1. Mesonotum anteromedially with a distinct brownish triangular process in male (
<figureCitation id="6EABA496FF9C4145FC5C22754E0AFAFF" box="[1015,1094,1349,1371]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="10.[151,250,1914,1938]" captionTargetBox="[163,1424,193,1881]" captionTargetId="figure-19@10.[151,1436,181,1890]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURE 6. Ascalaphus prothoracicus (Kimmins). Male. A. Dorsal habitus of head and thorax; B. Same, female; C. Lateral habitus; DE. Antenna: D. Male; E. Female; E. Head, anterior view. Scale bars: 5.0 mm (C); 2.0 mm (AB); 1.0 mm (E)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4766563" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4766563/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Fig. 6A</figureCitation>
), relatively smaller in female (
<figureCitation id="6EABA496FF9C4145FADE22754FD1FAFF" box="[1397,1437,1349,1371]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="10.[151,250,1914,1938]" captionTargetBox="[163,1424,193,1881]" captionTargetId="figure-19@10.[151,1436,181,1890]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURE 6. Ascalaphus prothoracicus (Kimmins). Male. A. Dorsal habitus of head and thorax; B. Same, female; C. Lateral habitus; DE. Antenna: D. Male; E. Female; E. Head, anterior view. Scale bars: 5.0 mm (C); 2.0 mm (AB); 1.0 mm (E)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4766563" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4766563/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">Fig.</figureCitation>
6B)...........................................................................
<taxonomicName id="3190C390FF9C4145FB2922524FD0FADC" ID-CoL="H55H" authority="(Kimmins)" baseAuthorityName="Kimmins" baseAuthorityYear="1949" box="[1154,1436,1378,1400]" class="Insecta" family="Ascalaphidae" genus="Ascalaphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neuroptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="prothoracicus">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FB2922524FD0FADC" bold="true" box="[1154,1436,1378,1400]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FB2922524F6BFADC" bold="true" box="[1154,1319,1378,1400]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">A. prothoracicus</emphasis>
(Kimmins)
</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F62FB813FF9C4145FF3C22B04FD0FA30" blockId="6.[151,1437,1349,1518]" box="[151,1436,1407,1430]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">
_. Mesonotum without any process (Kimminis, 1949: figs 1A, E [A =
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FCC022B049E6FA31" box="[875,938,1408,1429]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">dixcax</emphasis>
; E =
<taxonomicName id="3190C390FF9C4145FC7322B04E03FA31" ID-CoL="H4ZH" baseAuthorityName="Kimmins" baseAuthorityYear="1949" box="[984,1103,1408,1429]" class="Insecta" family="Ascalaphidae" genus="Ascalaphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neuroptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abdominalis">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FC7322B04E03FA31" box="[984,1103,1408,1429]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">abdominalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
])........................ ..
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FA3B224F4FD0FA30" bold="true" box="[1424,1436,1407,1428]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">2</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F62FB813FF9C4145FF3C22AD4FD0FA74" blockId="6.[151,1437,1349,1518]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">
2. Tergum 4 with a median dilation in lateral view, densely covered with short black setae (
<bibRefCitation id="9201C5E2FF9C4145FB9822AD4E82FA16" author="Kimmins, D." box="[1075,1230,1437,1459]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" pagination="1 - 29" refId="ref26581" refString="Kimmins, D. E (1949) Notes on Ascalaphidae in the British Museum collections, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12, 2, 1 - 29. [BotN ref # 3277] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222934908653955" type="journal article" year="1949">Kimmins, 1949</bibRefCitation>
: fig. 3).........................................................................................
<taxonomicName id="3190C390FF9C4145FB39228A4FD0FA74" ID-CoL="H4ZH" authority="(Kimmins)" baseAuthorityName="Kimmins" baseAuthorityYear="1949" box="[1170,1436,1466,1488]" class="Insecta" family="Ascalaphidae" genus="Ascalaphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neuroptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abdominalis">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FB39228A4FD0FA74" bold="true" box="[1170,1436,1466,1488]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FB39228A4F6BFA74" bold="true" box="[1170,1319,1466,1488]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">A. abdominalis</emphasis>
(Kimmins)
</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F62FB813FF9C4145FF3C22E84FD1FA49" blockId="6.[151,1437,1349,1518]" box="[151,1437,1495,1518]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">
_. Tergum 4 without dilation, covered with short black setae..........................................
<taxonomicName id="3190C390FF9C4145FB5122E84FD1FA49" ID-CoL="H52T" authority="Walker" authorityName="Walker" authorityYear="1853" box="[1274,1437,1495,1517]" class="Insecta" family="Ascalaphidae" genus="Ascalaphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neuroptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="407" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dicax">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FB5122E84FD1FA49" bold="true" box="[1274,1437,1495,1517]" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">
<emphasis id="C4E46401FF9C4145FB5122E84F07FA49" bold="true" box="[1274,1355,1495,1517]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="407">A. dicax</emphasis>
Walker
</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
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