Somogyi Múzeumok Közleményei 18. (Kaposvár, 2008)

ÁBRAHÁM LEVENTE: Ascalaphid Studies VI. New genus and species from Asia with comments on genus Suhpalacsa (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae)

72 LEVENTE ÁBRAHÁM Abdomen: 21 mm long. Tergite 1 divided; dark brown with long, soft and brown hairs. Tergite 2 dark brown with sporadic and moderately long, soft and brown hairs. Other tergites shinning dark brown with sparse, short and brown hairs. Sternite 1 dark brown with long and brown hairs. Other sternites shinning dark brown with sparse, short and brown hairs. Genitalia: Tergite 8 triangular-shaped, brown in lateral view. Tergite 9 subrhomboid-shaped brown. Setae on both tergites sparse, short and brown. Ectoprocts with pair of convex, brown plates. Hairs on caudal abdominal margin dense and yellowish-brown. Distivalvae brown with long, stiff and brown hairs. Ventrovalvae thumb-like in ventral view, brown with long, stiff and brown hairs. Interdens not seen. (Fig. 8-9). HABITAT and DISTRIBUTION: Tropical rain forest, known only from Borneo (Malaysia) (Fig. 10). Etymology: The new species is dedicated to Dr. Attila Haris, Hungarian entomologist. DIAGNOSIS The new species is closely related to (Gerstaecker, 1893) (=Suhpalacsa princeps Gerstaecker, 1893). This new species can easily be distinguished from Maezous princeps by its acute apices of wings and concave incision right under the apices and the cha-racteristic brown wing-pattern. In M. princeps, abdomen and antenna of males are longer than in females. Setae on tergites 1-4 in males are short and wings in males definitely narrower than those in females. Females are generally larger than males. Presumably, these characters can also be found in the unknown male of the newly described species. Acknowledgements The author expresses his graeful thanks to Mr. B. Makovsky (Czech entomologist), E. Jendek and O. âausa (Slovak entomologists) for collecting materials and Dr. Jacek Szwedo and Dr. Roland Dobosz (Polish entomologists) and Mr. Zoltán Papp and Prof. Dr. Zoltán Mészáros (Hungarian entomologists) for giving valueable information. I am also indebted to Dr. Wang Xinli (China) for their kind assistance for providing analysis of Chinese Suhpalacsa species described recently.