Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok VII. - Natura Somogyiensis 22. (Kaposvár, 2012)
Ábrahám L.: "On the other hand, what is this Eastern aeschnoides?" Morton 1926 - an undescribed Palpares species from the Eastern Mediterranean (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)
66 Natura Somogyiensis (Illiger, 1807), Palpares papilionoides (Klug in Ehrenberg, 1834), Palpares turcicus Koyak, 1976) but their distribution is not clear. Not only in the above mentioned works but also in many papers the opinion of neu- ropterologists varies on the validity of the different taxa. One can find numerous arguments for and against the existence of these taxa in the neuropterological literature, which I intend to follow closely later in this study. So I started to deal with the taxonomic and nomenclatural problems described above, when a larger series of collected material was available to me from Turkey and later from Iran. However, I got the real motivation when wanted to put a dozen Palpares from Syria into the entomological collection of Somogy County Museum (SCMK) and noticed that all of these specimens in size and morphological characters differ significantly from those taxa found in Eastern Mediterranean. After reading some papers, I had to realize quickly that there was a complex taxonomic and nomenclatural problem. Material and methods The research work was carried out in two general directions. First of all, I thoroughly studied all the literature ever published on taxonomical, nomenclatural and faunistical data concerning to Palpares species. The other part of the research consisted of the thorough morphological study of the types and topotypes, the samples collected around their sites of origin of the type material. Examined materials are listed in the results and discussion chapter. Results and discussion In the first part, the taxa collected in or ever reported from the Mediterranean area are focused and then the information found in the literature based on our recent knowledge are reevaluated. The second part of the section describes the results of taxonomical examinations. Abbrevalions: Chlist - Checklist, Comb - New combination, Dist - Distribution, K - Key with comment, Mon- Monograph, Morf - Morphology, Nom - Nomenclature, Odescr - Original description, Syn - Synonym, Syst- Systematics Palpares Rambur, 1842 - a short historical outline on the genus Type species: Hemerobius libelloides (Linnaeus, 1764) designated by Chenu & Desmarest 1859 (as Palpares libelluloides [sic!] (Linnaeus, 1767)). The largest (the length of fore wing 30-80 mm) and most decorative species with darkly spotted wings belong to the subfamily Palparinae Banks, 1911. The subfamily is characterized by not connecting 1A and CuP in the fore wing and pronotum shorter than wider apart from some exceptions. In the 10th edition of the Systema Naturae, Linnaeus (1758) classified some species into the order of Neuroptera and the genus of Hemerobius, which nowadays are considered different species of Neuroptera families (Chrysopidae, Hemerobiidae, Myrmeleontidae).
