Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok VII. - Natura Somogyiensis 22. (Kaposvár, 2012)
Ábrahám L.: "On the other hand, what is this Eastern aeschnoides?" Morton 1926 - an undescribed Palpares species from the Eastern Mediterranean (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)
70 Natura Somogyiensis and transferred several times (Fitton and Harman 2007). Originality is supported by the fact that wings are not arranged and the pin is from Linnaeus’s era. Contradict it: there is no the original label with species name. Although, the label "papilionoides" was written by Linnaeus with his typical handwriting which refers to the trivial name which used for color wing neuropterans (ant-lions and owl-flies). On the other hand, Linnaeus did never use the name of "papilionoides" for any ant-lions described by him. The largest second label "libelluloides" was written by Smith after purchasing the collection in 1784 when he relabeled the collection based on the 12th edition of the Systema Naturae. Supposedly Linnaeus (1758) knew about distribution of Palpares libelloides (Linnaeus, 1764) in the south of Europe from the work oíPetiver (1702) or Ray (1710), but he did not recognize the status of this taxon (Palpares libelloides) based on the descriptions and the illustrations (Fig. 4). The inaccurate distribution of both species (P speciosus and P libelloides) described by Linnaeus (1758, 1764) caused taxonomical confusion later on. Olivier (1811), however, reported this species only from Africa and distinguished between Palpares species (P speciosus and P. libelloides) described by Linnaeus (1758, 1764) based on morphologically and their distribution. Charpentier (1825) compared the two taxa morphologically and confirmed their different taxonomical status, but he could not clarify the differences between their occurring places. The name of this species reappears in the monograph of Burmeister (1839), who classified the ant-lion species in the genus Myrmecoleon Berthold, 1827. He regarded P. speciosus (as Myrmecoleon speciosus) as a valid taxon, separating it from the species P. libelloides (as "Myrmecoleon libelluloides"). He distinguished between the two species morphologically as well as according to their distribution. Only South Africa was specified as the distribution for P. speciosus. Fig. 4: Libellula turcica figured by Petiver (1702)
