Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok XIX. - Natura Somogyiensis 35. / Miscellanea 19. (Kaposvár, 2020)
Ábrahám, L.: A new Creoleon sp. n. (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) from Socotra (Yemen)
Natura Somogyiensis 35: 37-44. Kaposvár, 2020 Submitted: 30.06,2020; Accepted: 10.07, 2020; Published: 23.07, 2020 DOI:10.24394/NatSom.2020.35.37 www.smmi.hu/termtud/ns/ns.htm A new Creoleon sp. n. (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) from Socotra (Yemen) Levente Ábrahám Rippl-Rónai Museum, H-7400 Kaposvár, RO. Box 70, Hungary, e-mail: labraham@smmi.hu Ábrahám, L.: A new Creoleon sp. n. (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) from Socotra (Yemen). Abstract: Creoleon prolongaveruntus sp. nov. is described, figured from the island of Socotra (Yemen) and compared to Creoleon aegyptiacus (Rambur, 1842), Creoleon elegans Hölzel, 1968 and Creoleon mortifer (Walker, 1853). Keywords: ant-lion, new species, Socotra Introduction Socotra is one of the best preserved semi-arid tropical islands in the world, and characterized by a high diversity of plant and animal species as well as a high degree of endemism (Wranik 2003). The insect fauna of Socotra was recently summarized by Bezdek & Hájek (2018) in this paper one Creoleon species was included, namely: Creoleon mortifer (Walker, 1853). Based on the papers published by Whittington (2002) and Ábrahám (2010, 2011), they 13 Myrmeleontidae species enumerated and additionally 2 species indentified till genus level. At first, Kirby (1903) documented the occurrence of Creoleon species as Craegris mortifer (Walker, 1853) in the fauna of Socotra. Approximately half century later, Kimmins (1960) reported Craegris mortifer (Walker, 1853) from this island. Furthermore Whittington (2002) published additional faunistic data on this species. In two short publications (Ábrahám 2010, 2011) I described two new antiion species from this island and recorded further Myrmeleontidae species. During a thorough study of Creoleon species described from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, I noticed the faunistic data reported from Socotra island (Ábrahám 2011) represent a new species similar to Creoleon mortifer (Walker, 1853). I wasn’t able to check the material determined by previous authors (Kirby 1903, Kimmins 1960, Whittington 2002), however, I suppose, the earlier published data also refer to this newly described species. ISSN 1587-1908 (Print); ISSN 2062-9990 (Online)
