Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 99. (Budapest 2007)

Sziráki, Gy.: Presence of the subgenus Xeroconiopteryx Meinander, 1972 in Hungary (Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae)

tree in the Kiskunság National Park, in a partly burnt down place of a juniper-poplar scrub, with spots of xerophilous steppic grasslands. The third specimen was collected by knocking from oak trees on a forest edge below a rocky slope of Pilis-tető in Pilis Mountains. For studying male and female terminalia, the abdomen (together with the metathorax) was boiled in 10% KOH solution. Examination of female internal genitalia was carried out "in situ" both in glycerol and in distilled water, after staining with safranine. TAXONOMIC PART Coniopteryx (Xeroconiopteryx) kinali sp. n. (Figs 1-9) Type material - Holotype, male: Hungary, Bács-Kiskun county, Orgovány, sand dunes with juniper-poplar scrub, April 7, 2004, leg. working group of the Research Institute for Plant Protection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (RIPP). Paratype, female: same data as holotype. The types are deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Description - Length of the body 1.5 mm. Colour of head capsule, antennae, palpi, legs, dorsal part and sutures of thorax dark brown, other parts of thorax pale ochreous. Abdomen pale ochreous, and, with exception of male terminalia, weakly sclerotized. Structure of frons and palpi normal. Vertex with short, but rather strong hairs. Female antennae 0.8 mm, 22 segmented. Male antennae broken at the 14

th and \ 8> segments. Scape of male slightly, of female 1.3 times as long as broad. Pedicel about 1.5 times as long as broad, basal flagellar segments somewhat longer than broad and shorter than the others. Median flagellar segments about 2 times as long as broad. Setae rather short, ordinary hairs are arranged in two whorls. Scale like hairs forming a whorl on apex of male flagellar segments. Eyes moderately large in males, and rather small in females. Male holopterous; length of male forewing 1.7 mm, of hindwing 1.5 mm. Female forewing shortened (0.6 mm), with reduced venation (Fig. 1 ). Although the female left forewing has a clearly aberrant venation, and anal part of the right wing is damaged, it seems that Rs is very short, stem of R and M fused for a long distance, M unforked, Cuj and Cu

2 fused for a long distance, and only a single anal vein visible. Female hindwing reduced to a minute scale (Fig. 2). Male terminalia as in Figs 3-7. Hypandrium in lateral view distinctly higher than broad. Processus terminális long and narrow, without median incision. Processus lateralis with strong setae caudally on outstanding bases. Anterior apodeme of hypandrium broad, ventrally complete. Gonarcus broad and rather long, with pointed and slightly hooked ending. Styli branched, their inner branches forming a strong belt below parameres. Outer branch is a very wide, caudally serrated plate, and homologous with the "structures connected to the dorsal part of styli" (MEINANDER \972a) of Coniopteryx (Xeroconiopteryx) mongolica MEINANDER, 1969. Processus ventralis of paramere distinct. Distal part of paramere relatively short and slightly bent upwards. Processus apicalis consisting of a curved plate-like part and a large thorn directed