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)
Abrahám L: "On the other hand, what is this Eastern aeschnoides?' 73 1787" [Italy] (Fig. 6). In 1778 Linnaeus died, probably Smith labeled the specimens because his handwriting is typical but the pin seems to be used in Linnaeus era. This miswritting was first noticed by Hagen (1866) who synonymized it as "Libelloides L. Mus. L. Ulr. 401 = Palpares Libelluloides L.". In the literature of neuroperology this was, however, long forgotten. Even Hagen (1866) started to use the name Palpares libelluloides in his papers. Up to now, in the catalogues, publications and databases, almost without an exception (Stange 2004, Oswald 2007) have been using the names of Palpares libelluloides. As the 12th edition of the Systema Naturae was the most widely used in scientific works, the species was mentioned in the literature under this name for more than 200 years. When the name "Myrmeleon libelluloides" was mentioned for the first time by Linnaeus (1767), he also stated that Libellula turcica described in Petiver’s work (1702) was identical with "Hemerobius libelloides" described by him. He came to the same conclusion about the species named as "Musca rarissima" which was reported from Italy after the death of Ray (1710). However, he did not seem to know the exact distribution of the species, since he reported the occurrence from "Oriente, Africa, inque Cap. b. spei" (Asia Minor, Africa and Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) besides the southern part of Europe. Being a very large and decorative species among the insects, Palpares libelloides is often illustrated in taxonomical studies. These figures help identify the species because the short descriptions at places often do not carry enough information to identify the species belonging to the genus Palpares. The illustration of Rösel et al. (1764-68) (Fig. 2) is a good example along with Drury’s (1770) drawings (Fig. 7) and his most detailed description ever given for a specimen found in Smyrna (today Izmir, Turkey) named as "Myrmeleon libelluloides". Drury (1770) realized that the specimen from South Africa ("Cape of Good Hope") and the ones from Asia Minor were not conspecific but he did not recognize the difference between the two species, P. libelloides and P. specious. Ten years later, Drury (1782) described and illustrated an ant-lion specimen from Sierra Leone as a variety of Palpares libelloides. However, this description and drawing later on were proved to belong to the species Lachlathetes gigas (Dalman, 1823) (Fig. 8) (Dalman 1823). Fig. 8: A variety of Palpares libelloides from Sierra Leone (Drury 1782) which was described by Dalman in 1823 as "Myrmeleon gigas"
