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)

Abrahám L: "On the other hand, what is this Eastern aeschnoides?'

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IV. NEÜROPTERA.

Fig. 10: Sulzer’s (1776) illustration on "Myrmeleon libelluloides Fig. 3", however, the specimen may not be conspecific with Palpares libelloides or the drawing is rather artistic than realistic

In the first edition of "Fauna Etrusca" (Rossi 1790) two recording sites of Palpares libelloides (as "Myrmeleon libelluloides") ("Florentine; Pisano" - Firenze; Pizza) were mentioned from Italy. In his work Rossi (1790) cited from several earlier monographs (Linnaeus 1758, 1767, Drury 1770, De Geer 1773, Ray 1710, Petiver 1702). It is a matter of curiosity that based on the species conception of Fabricius (1775), he probably considered both Myrmeleon maculatum and Hemerobius speciosus synonyms for Myrmeleon libelluloides. Besides this, he also described a new taxon from the vicinity of Pizza as "Myrmeleon libelluloides pisanus" which proved to be the junior synonym of Acanthaclisis occitanica Villers, 1789 later.

The distribution of the species was still not known by the first half of the 19th century. Leach (1815) reported "Myrmeleon libelluloides" from the southern part of Europe and from Africa ("the south of Europe, and all Africa"). A couple of years earlier the French Olivier (1811) gave the distribution accurately as France, Greece, Italy and the eastern half of the Mediterranean Basin (as "Levant").