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)
22 Natura Somogyiensis Fig. 8: Distribution of Cymothales liberiensis (red cirle) and C. annisancti (yellow quadrat) Distribution: Both species spread from tropical West Africa to tropical central Africa. (Fig. 9) Cymothales annisancti Navás, 1926 Zaire (Navas 1926a, 1926b), Guinea (a new record for the fauna in coll. SCMK). Cymothales liberiensis van der Weele, 1904 Distribution in Africa: Burkina Faso (Prost 2015), Cameroon (van der Weele 1905, Banks 1911, Mansell 1987, Prost 2015), Ghana (a new record for the fauna in coll. SCMK), Guinea (Klapálek 1906, Prost 2015), Gabon (Auber 1956, Prost 2015), Ivory Coast (Auber 1956, Prost 2015), Liberia (van der Weele 1904, type), Mali, Nigeria (Mansell 1987, Prost 2015), Sierra Leone (Banks 1911), Zaire (Navás 1911, 1919 [1921], 1925, 1929, 1936, Mansell 1987, Prost 2015). Species of the genus Cymothales occur only in the Affotropical zone. Cymothales vanharteni Holzel, 2001, found in the southern Arabian Peninsula, proves that this area is also heavily influenced by African fauna. According to Mansell's (1987) revision, most species in the genus can be divided into two groups: the illustris-group and the mirabilis-group, Cymothales liberiensis and Cymothales annisancti belong to the mirabilis-group. Mansell (1987) did not mention of the goitre. The functional role and potential taxonomic significance of goitre is unknown (Stange, 2004, Krivothatsky 2011), it is present in several tribes eg. Dendroleontini, Myrmecaelurini, Brachynemurini. Acknowledgement The author thanks Gergely Petrányi (Hungary) for collecting the antiion specimen during his field research and handing them over to the collection of the Rippl-Rónai Museum, Kaposvár.
