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)

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

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Fig. 18: Kodak’s (1976) original Figure "Fig. 3. Palpares hispanus turcicus ssp. n. - $ (Holotype)"

The name of the species could not be found in Hölzel’s (1972) monograph, describing the ant-lion fauna of Middle East, although the synonym names of other species from this region were listed.

The name of the species was only mentioned in the voluminous monographs of Aspöck et al. (1980, 2001) as the synonym of P. libelloides.

Although Navás (1913) gave a description of the species in his later publications repeatedly, the time of the species description can be dated around 1910 since the description given by Navás (1910) fulfilled all the criteria of species description. The name presented in Navás (1913) was a primarly junior homonym (Oswald 2007). Stange (2004) listed both descriptions of the species among the synonym names of Palpares libelloides without mentioning homonymy.

The examination of the designated lectotype specimen housed in Madrid revealed that Palpares chrysopterus Navás, 1910 is conspecific with taxon Palpares turcicus Kogak, 1976.

The current status of the taxon is a valid.

Palpares hispanus turcicus Ko<;ak, 1976 and Palpares turcicus Kofák, 1976 (Fig. 18)

Palpares hispanus turcicus Kofák, 1976 - Koqak 1976 (Odescr), Aspöck et al. 2001 (Syn)

Palpares turcicus Kofák, 1976 - Kocák 1995 (Tax), Stange 2004 (Syn)

The taxon described by Ko<;ak (1976) was regarded as a synonym of P. libelloides by Aspöck et al. (1980). The authors in this monograph did not consider P. hispanus a valid taxon either. They reiterated this opinion in their later monograph Aspöck et al. (2001), too. Although P. hispanus was listed as a valid species at this time and P. hispanus turcicus was mentioned as a synonym of P. hispanus.