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FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK LXI 2000 pp. 87-93 Data to the knowledge of the Asian Ascalaphidae (Neuroptera), with description of a new subspecies Gy. Sziráki Data to the knowledge of the Asian Ascalaphidae (Neuroptera), with description of a new subspecies — Ascalaphidae collected in different countries of Asia, and deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum were examined. Altogether 21 species were in the studied material. One of them was represented by a new subspecies, Bubpsis andromachefiryuzae ssp. n. Its description is given. One or more of the determined ascalaphid species was/were new to the fauna of India, Indonesia, Kazachstan, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan and Yemen. Key words: Ascalaphidae, Hungarian Natural History Museum, new subspecies. INTRODUCTION In spite of the relatively large body of the species belonging to this family, Ascalaphidae is one of the badly abandoned groups within the insect order Neuroptera, especially as regards the fauna of Asia. Since the monograph of Van der Weele (1909), and the compendium of Navás (1913), no world-wide revisional work was written about the owlflies, and a modern revision is also lacking in the case of Asian ascalaphid species. The earlier data on the distribution of Asian ascalaphids were summarized in a recent annotated checklist (Sziráki 1998), however, most of the species are known only from a few, or even from a single (i.e. the type) locality. The main aim of the present paper is to give a contribution to the knowledge of the range of the Asian owlfly species represented in the Neuroptera collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. As in many cases only the rather short original description is available, some uncertainty may be in the identification, especially in the large and probably confused genera Suhpalacsa Lefebvre, 1842 and Suphalomitus Van der Weele, 1909. TAXONOMIC PART ASCALAPHINAE Acheron trux (Walker, 1853) Material — India, Sukna, W. Bengal, 21.05.1980, leg. Gy. Topái: 1 female; Taiwan, Prov. Hua Lien, 30 km W of Hua Juan, 150 m a.s.l., 02.07.1996, leg. G. Csorba and L. Németh: 1 male, 2 females; same country and collectors, Prov. Nan Tou,