Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok 14. - Natura Somogyiensis 30. / Miscellanea 14. (Kaposvár, 2016)

Ábrahám L.: New data to the Moroccan Myrmeleontiformia (Neompteridae, Myrmeleontidae, Ascalaphidae) fauna

Ábrahám, L.: New data to the Moroccan Myrmeleontiformia fauna 107

Fig. 34: Neuroleon cuigneti (Navás, 1912), abdomen in lateral view

Studying the description of Neuroleon maroccanus Navás, 1912 collected from Morocco, this species is also very similar to Neuroleon cuigneti (Navás, 1912) but it remained incertae sedis because the type specimen (Navás 1912a) was preserved in Navás’s private and destroyed collection (Monserrat 1985).

The length of male fore wing is 20-23 mm. The females are somewhat larger, the length of fore wing is 24-27 mm. There is no dark brown stripe right below the antenna on irons but a wide dull black cross stripe can be seen above the antenna and it extends as a narrow shining black line towards the mouth. The pattern of pronotum as in Fig. 32. Wings are transparent and have characteristic pattern. In the fore wing, the cross-veins are featured with brown shadows at the basal part of MP and CuA (Fig. 30). In hind wing, the proximal cross-vein of the prestigmatic cell is pigmented on both sides, otherwise the membrane is entirely transparent. An irregular shaped longitudinal yellow mark can be seen on each side of the abdomen. It is equal and/or longer than the half of the tergal segments (Fig. 34). Male is characterized with upstanding long dense thin and white hairs on the hind femur and tibia (Fig. 33). Female has only white or black bristles on hind leg.

It flies from June to September, collected at light.

Fig. 35: Neuroleon cuigneti (Navás, 1912), male genitalia in lateral view