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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Figs. 19-20: Klug in Ehrenberg (1834) "Tab. XXXV. Fig. 2." as "Myrmeleon papilionoides” a female specimen of Palpares papilionoides (Fig. 19) and the same in photo (Fig. 20)

Northeast of Africa, he regarded this taxon from Egypt as a smaller form of P. hispanus (see section on P. aeschnoides taxon).

Apparently, the distribution of P. hispanus requires further clarification especially in North Africa as this species can certainly be found from Spain to Tunisia. However, the specimens from the region stretching from Egypt to the Northeast of Iran were surrounded by taxonomical uncertainties. Species from this area were defined in various different ways: P. hispanus (Navás 1911, 1926, Esben-Petersen 1918, Morton 1926, Simon 1979) and P. hispanus turcicus (Ko<,:ak 1976), P. turcicus (Koqak et al. 1995), P libelloides (Hagen 1860a, Navás 1926, Hölzel 1972, Aspöck. et al. 1980, 2001).

Morton (1926) had admittedly never seen the species McLachlan (1889) reported from Syria as P. aeschnoides. Therefore he showed his specimens to Esben-Petersen, a notable expert of neuropterology of the time, who identified them as P. hispanus.

Nevertheless, Morton (1926) still maintained some uncertainty as his specimens from Palestine were smaller than the well-known specimens of P. hispanus found in Spain and Algeria. In the end, he decided to list "the smaller sized specimens" from the Middle East under the name of P. hispanus.

The current status of the taxon is a valid.