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)

Ábrahám L.: Ascalaphid studies X. 55 Fig. 5: Male genitalia of Maezous maezousi sp.n. in lateral view Etymology. The new species is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Zoltán Mészáros for his 80th birthday. His Hungarian nick name is MéZo (in latin Maezo). Diagnosis'. In the Philippines three large sized Maezous species were found namely Maezous princeps (Gerstaecker, 1894), Maezous lugubris (Gerstaecker, 1894) comb, n., and the newly described Maezous maezousi sp. n. as well as Malesianus harisi (Ábrahám, 2008) comb. n. They can be distinguished based on the following key: 1. Labrum and clypeus yellow..........................................................................................2- Labrum and clypeus dominantly brown, mesothorax dark brown with wide yellow central band (Fig. 4)................................................................................................M. harisi 2. Mesothorax reddish brown, costal area not or only faintly pigmented, pterostigma almost indistinct (Fig. 10)..................................................................................M. lugubris- Mesothorax brown with two lateral wide yellow bands (Fig. 3), costal area strongly pigmented, pterostigma distinct............................................................................................3 3. Apical area completely pigmented (Fig. 9)..............................................M. princeps- Apical area beyond pterostigma transparent and distal part pigmented (Fig. 1).......... ..................................................................................................................M. maezousi sp.n. The new species also resembles to the other three Maezous species namely Maezous jianfanglingana (Yang & Wang 2002) comb, n., original combination: Acheron jianfan- glinganus Yang, 2002, but later it was combined to Suhpalacsa jianfanglingana (Yang, 2002) by Wang et al. (2008), Maezous fuscimarginata (Wang et Sun, 2008) comb. n. from China and Maezous tomijankae Ábrahám, 2008 from Laos. Maezous maezousi sp.

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