S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 52. (Budapest, 1992)

A new Coniopteryx species from the Far East (Planipennia: Coniopterygidae) By Gy. Sziráki (Received August 15, 1991) A new Coniopteryx species from the Far East (Planipennia: Coniopterygidae). - A new Coniopteryx species - C. aitnica sp. n. - is described from the southern territories of the USSR Far East. In the summer of 1990 a study tour and collecting trip was carried out in the Primőrje, in the southern part of the USSR Far East. In the Neuroptera material, which was collected together with Dr. V. Makarkin, I have found a male specimen of a hitherto undescribed Coniopteryx species. Coniopteryx alinica sp. n. (Figs 1-6) Holotype: male; "28. 6. 1990. USSR, Primőrje, Khualaza mt., Anisimovka, leg. Sziráki et Makarkin" - deposited in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Head yellowish gray, eyes black. Antennae 25-segmented, light brown. Scale like hairs are on flagellar segments. Frons and palpi normal. Thorax light yellowish gray with brown spots. The legs are light brown. The length of fore wing 2.3 mm. Membrane of it light fuscous. Male genitalia: as Figs 1-6. (Terminology: as in Meinander, 1972.) Hypandrium as long as high. Processus terminales rather short, in lateral view acute, in caudal view greatly rounded. Processus laterales prominent. Median apical incision rather broad. Apodeme ventrally complete along the anterior margin. Styli forked. Parameres apically bent downwards abruptly. Their caudal corner has a little rounded knot. The bent down endings of parameres arc shorter than the outer branches of styli. Processus ventrales of parameres are connected by chitinized membrane. Penis sclcrotized as bifurcated rod. On the basis of the construction of male genitalia the new species obviously belongs to the Coniopteryx tineiformis group (Meinander, 1981). It is worth of note, that all of the other four Coniopteryx species which are known from the USSR Far East (Makarkin, 1990) belong to the same species group. Because of the similarities in the structure of parameres, styli and penis C. alinica sp. n. is rather close to Coniopteryx aspoecki Kis, 1967, but the two species can easily be separated on the basis of the different shape of hypandrium. Remarks: The single specimen of C. alinica sp. n. was collected in a mixed deciduous-coniferous forest by netting and beating the trees and bushes. The locality is situated in the Khualaza (=Krinchnaja) mt., which is one of the southernmost members of the