Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok XIX. - Natura Somogyiensis 35. / Miscellanea 19. (Kaposvár, 2020)
Ábrahám, L.: Cymothales annisancti Navás, 1926 is a valid species (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontida)
Ábrahám, L.: Cymothales annisancti Navás, 1926 is a valid species 19 Results and discussion From Guinea, in the specimens of the identified material were greater morphological differences between the two Cymothales specimens. Based on Mansell's (1987) paper, one of them proved to be Cymothales liberiensis van der Weele, 1904 but the other one was different. Later I also checked the synonymous type specimens and found Cymothales annisancti Navás, 1926 in the collection of Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium (MRAC) to be the same with my specimen. The type specimen is in poor condition, antennae most of the legs and the end of the abdomen are missing but it could still be found that the specimen collected in Guinea was conspecific with the type specimen of Cymothales annisancti Navás, 1926 and taxonomic status is valid. Therefore, I give a more detailed characterization and illustrations of the second known specimen of this species, in order to make it easier to distinguish between the two species in the future. Characters for Cymothales annisancti Navás, 1926 Head. Vertex square shaped in frontal view, dull brown and hairless; frons, clypeus and labrum shiny brown entirely, clypeus margins with sparse shiny brown hairs, labrum with sparse shiny ocher-brown hairs directed ventrally. Gena brown with small yellow spot above arising mandibula, hairless (Fig. 5). Antenna clavate. Scape, pedicel brown, dispal part of pedicel with narrow yellow ring. Flagellomeres (1-5) brown dorsally, others yellow dorsally and ventrally. Mandible shiny brow with black inner margin. Maxillar and labial palps brownish yellow. Eyes large and shiny bronze brown. Goitre shiny brown (only on male) present, sclerotized sac-like structure on the postmentum. (Fig. 6). Thorax: Pronotum at least twice longer than wide, light brown, with two small yellow stripes dorso-laterally and with narrow yellow lateral margin on prescutum. Pronotum with sparse outstanding pale hairs laterally. Mesonotum and metanotum dark brown with two distinct yellow stripes on mesoprescutum and metascutum. Pubescence on mesonotum and metanotum sparse very short pale. Pleurites dark brown with distinct yellow margins along suturae and with sparse short pale hairs. Legs: (Fig. 6) coxae brown; trochanters, femora, tibiae slender, yellow with a few dark brown spots and sparse short outstanding black bristles in two rows ventrally. Narrow brown ring on distal parts of femora and tibiae. Femora as long as tibiae. Tarsal segments yellow with short pale bristles. Basitarsi as long as tarsal segment 5 on fore and middle legs. Tarsal segment 1 sligthly longer than tarsal segment 5 on hind leg. Tibial spurs as long as tarsal segment 1-2 combined. Wings. Narrow hindwing is longer than board forewing, tip of wings subacute but not falcate, pattern on wing bicoloured dark brown and dark burgundy (Fig. 7). In forewing complete basal band oblique bicoloured, sectoral band divided out, long oval shaped in originating of radial sector, slightly oval shaped on hind margin. Pattem in apical area strongly fragmented. Pterostigma yellow with 4-5 forked pinkish veins. Presectoral area with 2 crossveins and 6 irregular double cells. Rs with 8-12 branches. Tip of hindwing subacute and falcate, pattem in apical area and on hind margin also fragmented. Pterostigma small brown with 3 pinkish veins. Presectoral area with 1 crossvein. Rs with 12-14 branches. Abdomen. Shorter than wings. Tergites brown with indistinct oval yellow spot on tergite 2-5 dorso-medially. Stemites yellowish-brown. Pubescence short, pale.
