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ÁBRAHÁM L. & DOBOSZ D.: Contribution to the ant-lion and owl-fly fauna of Madagascar with description new taxa (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae, Ascalaphidae)
Natura Somogyiensis 19 109-138 Kaposvár, 2011 Contribution to the ant-lion and owl-fly fauna of Madagascar with description new taxa (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae, Ascalaphidae) 'LEVENTE ÁBRAHÁM & 2ROLAND DOBOSZ 'Somogy County Museum, Natural History Department, H-7400 Kaposvár, P.O. Box 70, Hungary, e-mail: labraham@smmi.hu 2Upper Silesian Museum, Natural History Department, PL. Sobieskiego 2, 41-902 Bytom, Poland, e-mail: dobosz@muzeum.bytom.pl ÁBRAHÁM , L. & DOBOSZ, D.: Contribution to the ant-lion and owl-flv fauna of Madagascar with description new taxa (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae, Ascalaphidae). Abstract: In this paper the authors listed 27 ant-lion (Myrmeleontidae) and 7 owl-fly (Ascalaphidae) species from Madagascar preserved in both museum collections: SCMK (Kaposvár, Hungary) and USMB (Bytom, Poland). Palpares germaini Navás, 1919 is a junior synonym of Palpares martini van der Weele, 1907, its type locality was confused in the original description. It is not a member of the fauna of Madagascar but that of Northern Africa. Centroclisis alluaudi (Weele, 1909) is combined to Syngenes alluaudi (Weele, 1909) n. comb.; Disteleon majungalensis (Esben-Petersen, 1916) is combined to Nemoleon majungalensis (EsbenPetersen, 1916) n. comb. Neeles belohensis Navás, 1924 from East Afrika is a junior synonym of Disteleon majungalensis (Esben-Petersen, 1916). Vise a magnus Ábrahám sp. n. and Visca murzini Ábrahám sp. n. are new species. Botjederinus Ábrahám gen. n. is a new genus, genotype species is Suphalomitus cephalotes (McLachlan, 1871). Fadrina rufa Navás, 1912 is a new species for the Malgassan ant-lion fauna. Keywords: new species, new genus, ant-lion, owl-fly, Myrmeleontidae, Ascalaphidae Madagascar Introduction Madagascar is the world's 4th largest island situated in the Indian Ocean. Around the main island several small islets and coral riffs can be found. It was separated from the continent by the Mozambique channel 135 million years ago and from the Indian subcontinent 88 million years ago ( ALI & AITCHISON 2008). The largest part of the main island is covered by 1300-1800 m high plateau, the highest peak (Maromokotro 2876 m) is in the Tsaratanana Mts. The plateau sinks gradually toward eastern to narrow coastal lowland (10-15 km) and gently sloping to the wider western lowland. Madagascar's climate is strongly influenced by south-eastern winds, and its temperatures are also moderated by altitude. The western and southern parts of the island lies in the rain shadow thus heterogenic climate conditions created great diversity of habitats from the eastern tropical humid rainforests, western dry deciduous forests to southwestern subarid spiny forests (VENCES et al. 2009).
