Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok 14. - Natura Somogyiensis 30. / Miscellanea 14. (Kaposvár, 2016)

Ábrahám L.: New data to the Moroccan Myrmeleontiformia (Neompteridae, Myrmeleontidae, Ascalaphidae) fauna

Abraham, L.: New data to the Moroccan Myrmeleontiformia fauna 121

Male genitalia, ectroproct elongated narrow plate, with short appendices, apex rounded and bristled.

Remarks'. Stylascalaphus Sziráki, 1998 is an objective replacement name for Stylonotus Needham, 1909 because that was a junior homonym of Stylonotus Olfers, 1907 (Collembola). The type species is Ascalaphus (Haploglenius) obscurus Westwood, 1847 lost (McLachlan 1891, Needham 1909). Based on description, Needham (1909) gave a detailed morphological characterization on the species found in India. Stylascalaphus fabi- ani Mészáros & Abrahám, 2005 was the second species combined with the genus. It was recorded in Pakistan, Iran and SE Turkey (Dobosz & Abrahám 2007).

Stylascalaphus krueperi (Weele, 1909) (comb, n.) is a new combination for Helicomitus krueperi Weele, 1909, which Weele (1909) placed tentatively into Helicomitus and Sziráki (1998) listed it as Ascalaphus krueperi (Weele, 1909). Ascalaphus species were traditionally divided into two groups (Kimmins 1949, Prost 2013). The species in Ascalaphus were collected mainly in Africa and in the Arabian Peninsula and recently in Sardinia (Europe). Most of the species are recognized by the swollen base of the costal margin of fore wing and the tufts of hairs directed basally.

The species of the other group recorded only in Asia especially in the Oriental realm from Pakistan via SE Asia to Malaysian Archipelago. The most species of this group, Helicomitus MacLachlan, 1871 were described by Kimmins (1949) and I also agree with him that it is a well separated genus from African Ascalaphus distinguished by absence of the tufts of hairs in the base of fore wing and by specialized tufts of hairs and/or protuberance present on notum.

Stylascalaphus Sziráki, 1998 is recognised by unicolor thorax, strongly elongate, transparent wings, upstanding distal margin on tergite 3, tergite 3 and 4 with more or less short strong bristles in male, male ectroproct elongated narrow plate with short postven- tral appendices.

Stylascalaphus krueperi (van der Weele, 1909) comb. n. (Fig. 50)

Specimens examined: Morocco Tiz-n-Bachkoun 10km N from Tazenakt 1594m W07°16’20.7” N30°41’12.0”

28.06, 2008 Leg. Ábrahám L., Bognár L., Nagy L. 1S 1$; 17.06, 2010 Leg. Ábrahám L., Kisbenedek L., Wágner L. Morocco 5km from Anezol 1533m W07o17’59.1” N30°47’21.7” 01.07, 2009 Leg. Ábrahám L., Malgay V., Szalóki D. 2$.

Remarks: It is a lesser-known species. Based on a male and a female of the type specimens, it was described by Weele (1909) from Syria. Decade later, Navás (1921) also described this species as Helicomitus hyalinus Navás, 1921 (misspelling in print version as Helicomitus hyalinus') from Algeria. Oswald (2015) called the attention to the nomenclature problem, Ascalaphus hyalinus is a junior homonym of Ascalaphus hyalinus Latreille in Humboldt & Bonpland, 1817. Since the description, the name of the species was cited by only a faunal list (Aspöck & Hölzel 1996) and a monograph (Aspöck et ah, 2001), but there was no real faunistic data except from the paper published by Abrahám (2010). Later, the taxonomic status of Ascalaphus hyalinus (preserved in MNHN, Paris) was examined and compared to the type specimen to Ascalaphus krueperi (Weele, 1909) (original combination Helicomitus (?) Kriiperi) (preserved in RMNH, Leiden). It is not only a new synonym of Stylascalaphus krueperi (van der Weele, 1909) but also a new combination.

Stylascalaphus krueperi is a similar species to Ascalaphus barbarus. The main features are: irons shining brown, thorax unicolour reddish brown, number of cross-veins before Rs in hind wing 3-4, short strong black bristles on male tergal segment 3-4, apical part of female hind wing pigmented. The same characters are in Ascalaphus barbarus frons yellow, thorax brown with a wide longitudinal and yellow central band, number of