S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 65. (Budapest, 2004)
Coniopterygidae of Eurasia, New Guinea and North Africa Gy. Sziráki Abstract All of the coniopterygid taxa known from Eurasia, New Guinea and North Africa are listed with comments on their geographical distribution. Identification keys are given both for the species, and supraspecific levels. A new grouping for the species of the larger genera is presented. Heteroconis acuticauda, H. thawati, Coniopteryx (C.) oroszi and C. (C.) spinicornis are described as new for science, and the description of female of Heteroconis sakaeratica is given. Key words: Coniopterygidae, Eurasia, New Guinea, North Africa, identification keys. INTRODUCTION In 1972 the first modern monograph of the neuropterous family Coniopterygidae (Meinader 1972a) documented 231 recent species of the world. This number increased to 423 by 1990 (Meinander 1990), and to about 550 by now. Simultaneously the number of the species known from the examined territory increased intensively also, and as a result of the works of M. Meinader, V. Monserrat, T. New, Z. Liu, C. Yang and the present author, this increasing was the highest in Asia and New Guinea. The aim of our work is to give a survey of dusty wings living in the Palaearctic and Oriental zoogeographical regions, and in New Guinea, as it seems to be possible that some species desribed from there will later be found in the neighbouring Oriental territories, too. An identification key is given to 265 of the included 270 species, to the species groups and to the higher taxa known from the examined territory. A new grouping of the species of larger genera was also preapared, mainly for practical reasons, i.e.: to make identifications easier. The features of the informal species groups are given in the keys. (A more complete paper about the species groups of some coniopterygid genera worldwide will be prepered in the near future.) References on the species are given, but only the first description (and the first mention, when it is other), and those important papers, which are not referred to in the comprehesive works of Meinander (1972a, 1990), Penny et al. (1997), and Aspöck et al. (2001). Regarding the male genitalia, I follow the terminology of Meinander (1972a), but in the genus Heteroconis those of Tjeder (1973) and New (1990). In the case of the wing venation the generally accepted abbreviations are used in the text and in the figures as well. Meaning of captions in other figures are as below: IX = 9 th sternite, X = 10 th sternite, appIX = caudal appendage of 9 th sternite, bps = basal projection of stylus, c = caudal projection of gonarcus, ca = caudal apophysis, Cd = cardo, Clp =
