Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok 13. - Natura Somogyiensis 28. / Miscellanea 13. (Kaposvár, 2016)
Ábrahám L.: Ascalaphid studies X. Maezous maezousi sp. n. –a new ascalphid species from the Philppines (Neuroptera: Ascalphidae)
Natura Somogyiensis 28 51-64 Kaposvár, 2016 Ascalaphid studies X. Maezous maezousi sp. n. - a new ascalaphid species from the Philippines (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae) Levente Ábrahám Rippl-Rónai Museum, H-7400 Kaposvár Fő utca 10., Hungary e-mail: labraham@smmi.hu Ábrahám, L.: Ascalaphid studies X. Maezous maezousi sp. n. - a new ascalaphid species from the Philippines (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae). Abstract: Maezous maezousi sp.n. is a new species from the Philippines namely Palawan Island compared to Maezous princeps (Gerstaecker, 1894), Maezous lugubris (Gerstaecker, 1894) comb.n., Maezous jianfanglin- gana (Yang & Wang 2002) comb.n., Maezous tomijankae Ábrahám, 2008 and Malesianus harisi (Ábrahám, 2008) comb. n. Malesianus gen. n. is a new genus from Malesia, Malaysian archipelago, the type species is Maezous harisi Ábrahám, 2008 and its male has been characterized. The lectotype of Maezous lugubris (Gerstaecker, 1894) is designated. Suhplacsa fumiala Wang, X.-L; Sun, M.-x.; Liang, A, 2008 (syn. n.) and Suhpalacsa ledrana Navás, 1913 (syn. n.) are junior synonyms of Maezous lugubris (Gerstaecker, 1894). Protacheron guangxiensis Sun et Wang, 2006 (syn. n.) is a junior synonym of Protacheron philippinensis (van der Weele, 1904). Ascalaphid fauna of the Philippines is listed and commented. With figs: 1-14. Keywords: new species, new synonyms, new combination, owlfly, Asaclaphidae, the Philippines Introduction New (1993) compiled a monograph of the Malesian Neuroptera fauna, in which a key for all ascalaphid genera of the Indo-Malaysian region with short comments on their taxonomy and nomenclature were published. The data of this volume are based on the relevant literature and five ascalaphid species, Protidricerus philippinensis Esben- Petersen, 1927, Helicomitus dicax (Walker, 1853), Protachereon philippiensis van der Weele, 1904, Suhpalacsa reducta Banks, 1931, Suphalomitus malayanus (Maclachlan, 1871) were listed from the Philippines. Comprehensive faunistical mapping of the region has not happened yet. Only descriptions of new species can be found in different papers (van der Weele 1904, Esben- Petersen 1927, Banks 1931) and in monographs (Walker 1853, MacLachlan 1871, van der Weele 1909) which were collected during casual field works. In addition, only a very few faunistical data were published by Banks (1913, 1916, 1939) from the Philippine archipelago. The recently studied owl-fly material come from an insect collecting expedition carried out in the Philippines and several interesting species including a new species were identified.
