S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 31/2. (Budapest, 1978)
CARNIDAE Meoneura asiatica L. Papp, 1976 - 3 6: 2 km W of La Hencha, 9 April, 1977, leg. Mahunka (No. 93); 1 6: Boughrara, lighting, 3 April, 1977, leg. Gozmány and Mahunka (No. 60). - Recently described from MongoRa, it is the second known occurrence of the species, also new for Tunisia. Meoneura glaberrima Becker, 1910- 3 6: Gafsa, Biró, 22, March, 1903. - Described from Corsica, new for Tunisia. In one of my earlier papers (PAPP, 1977a)the above specimens were indicated as specimens of a new species close to glaberrima but only slight differences were found on the type-specimen (in number of the bristles on outer genital parts), that is, why I concluded that the specimens from Gafsa also belong to glaberrima Beck. Meoneura hungarica L. Papp, 1977 - 1 6, 1 <j>: Boughrara, 6 April, 1977, leg. Mahunka (No. 73); 4 6, 3 o_: 2 km W of La Hencha, 9 April, 1977, leg. Mahunka, (No. 93). Described from Hungary, found also in Czechoslovakia, new for the African part of the Palaearctic region and for Tunisia. Meoneura lacteipennis (FaRén, 1823) - 1 6: El Kef, 2 April, 1977, leg. Gozmány and Mahunka (No. 46). - The majority of its pubRshed occurrence data are based on misidentifications.thus, its distribution is hardly known. New for Tunisia. Meoneura palaestinensis Hennig, 1937 - 1 6: Degache, 14 April, 1977, Rghting, leg, Embey-Isztin and Gozmány (No. 108); 4 6, 2 g: Tozeur, 16 April, 1977, leg. Mahunka (No. 117). - Hitherto it was known only from Palestine (Israel). New for Tunisia. Meoneura prima (Becker, 1903) - 1 c-: 2 km W of La Hencha, 9 April, 1977, leg. Mahunka (No. 93); 16, 1 ç: Sfax, Biró, 7 March, 1903; 1 6: Gafsa, Biró, 22 March, 1903.1 6: Gafsa, Biró, 22 March, 1903. - The specimens collected by BIRO were published by BECKER (1907) and HENNIG (1937) as obscurella (FALLÉN, 1823), (cf. PAPP, 1977a). New for Tunisia. Meoneura tunisica sp. n. (Fig. 2) A completely black species. Frontal triangle short, apex reaching not far before the middle of frons, not shining. Frontal triangle and all the other parts of irons not shining but with some silky reflexion. Genae wide, 8/13 as wide as longitudinal axis of eyes. Genal edge with 2 pairs of strong vibrissae. Mesonotum with 3 pairs of dc, but anterior two pairs hardly longer than microchaetae of mesonotum. Fore femur with 3 (2) long posteroventral bristles. Mid metatarsus not very long, only sRghtly longer than half of mid tibia. Wings as in its congeners, somewhat brownish, vein r^ + ^ strongly downcurving. Wing length: holotype male: 1.45 mm, paratype female: 1. 73 mm, width: holotype male: 0. 55 mm, paratype female: 0. 69 mm. Knob of haltères white, stalk brownish. Male 5th sternite with a pair of long bristles. Genital vault very short dorsally with half of a wreath of moderately long and thick bristles. Male genitalia as in Fig. 2. Lamella coalescent with surstylus, short and wide, surstylar part with moderately long bristles, lameflar part with very long colourless bristles. Female abdomen without any remarkable characteristics. Body-length:holotype male: 1.73 mm, paratype female: 1.82 mm. Holotype male: Tunisia, 2 km W of La Hencha, 9 April, 1977, leg. S. Mahunka, netted from Ferula flowers along road (No. 93). Paratype female: Boughrara, 6 April, 1977, netted on plants, mimosa shrubs in Cyprus alley (also reservoir and a dung heap near), leg. Mahunka (No. 73). Type specimens preserved in alcohol in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. M. tunisica sp.n. is an easily identifiable species. Its dull frontal triangle is rather conspicuous. It stands between the species groups with 1 and 3 pairs of dc bristles. It'has some affinities to the paraseducta species-group (MongoRa) (fore femur with 2-3 pairs of posteroventral bristles, male 5th sternite with a pair long bristles, lamella coalescent with surstylus with very long colourless bristles, genital vault very short dorsally) but its frontal triangle and details of male genitalia distinguish it from any of the species of the paraseducta group. There is only one known species with dull frontal triangle and with short anterior dc pairs similar to tunisica sp.n.: forcipata Sabrosky, 1959 (Canada, MongoRa) but its genitaRa are completely different, its genae are much narrower than those of tunisica and it has more poRen on the mesonotum than the new species described above.
