S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 59. (Budapest, 1998)
Distribution: Asia Minor, Bangladesh, Continental SE Asia including SE China, India (Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, W Bengal), Indo-Malayan Islands, Iraq, Japan, Malayan Peninsula, Molucca islands, New Guinea, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Syria. Ascalaphus festivus (Rambur, 1842) Van der Weele 1909a: 175-178 (Helicomitus festivus). Distribution: Palestine, Saudi Arabia. (It is a widespread species in Africa and Madagascar.) Ascalaphus kruperi (Van der Weele, 1909) Van der Weele 1909a: 180-181 (Helicomitus ? krüperi). Distribution: Syria and Sinai peninsula. Remarks: In the original description this species tentatively was placed into the genus Helicomitus. Ascalaphus placidus (Gerstaecker, 1893) Van der Weele 1909a: 178 (Helicomitus dicax (Walker) partim), Kimmins 1949: 7-8 (Helicomitus placidus). Distribution: Indo-Malayan Islands. Ascalaphus procax Walker, 1853 Van der Weele 1909a: 178 (Helicomitus dicax (Walker) partim), Kimmins, 1949: 4 (Helicomitus procax). Distribution: Nepal. Ascalaphus prothoracicus (Kimmins, 1949) Kimmins 1949: 6-7 (Helicomitus prothoracicus). Distribution: India (Assam, Sikkim, W Bengal). Ascalaphus sinister Walker, 1853 Van der Weele 1909a: 178 (Helicomitus dicax (Walker) partim), Kimmins 1949: 3-4 (Helicomitus sinister). Distribution: India (Bombay, N India, Orissa, W Bengal), Sri Lanka. Ascalohybris nom. nov. - Hybris Lefebvre, 1842; homonymy, recognized by Oswald and Penny (1991). Remarks: Because of the absence of an available synonym, the generic name Hybris Lefebvre (which is the junior homonym of Hybris Nitzsch, 1833 - Aves) had to be replaced by a nomen novum. This genus clearly differs from the few Oriental ascalaphid genera described after the last revision of the family, i.e., no probability that after a new revision one of them proves to be synonym of it. Ascalohybris angulata (Westwood, 1848) Van der Weele 1909a: 263 (Hybris angulata). Distribution: Bangladesh, Burma, India (Assam, Meghalaya, W Bengal), Malayan Peninsula.
