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Palpares interioris Kolbe 1897

  • 1. Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, sezione di Zoologia " La Specola ", via Romana 17, I- 50125 Florence, Italy - emilio. insom @ gmail. com; libellula. ter @ gmail. com

Description

Palpares interioris Kolbe, 1897: 9 (Od).

Palpares tristis var. ugandanus Stitz, 1912: 106 (Od), fide Esben-Petersen, 1928: 443.

Palpares interioris: Banks, 1913: 181, pl. 21, fig. 49 (Ct); Van der Weele, 1922: 321, Pl. In 2, figs. 2-4 (Mont Karoli, Afrique Orientale Anglaise) (Ct); Esben-Petersen, 1928: 443 (Syn).

Palpares papilionoides: Banks, 1913: 188 (Tax); Esben-Petersen, 1928: 443 (Rd); Hölzel et al., 1999: 363 (Dst); Aspöck et al., 2001: 228 (Tax, Dst, Syn); Ábrahám 2012: 87 (Tax, Dst).

Parapalpares interioris: Insom & Carfì, 1988b (Tax).

Specimens examined – Ethiopia: 7♀♀, Gemu Gofa, (loc. 54) Arba Mintch (ca. 1570 m), 13.XI.1973, C. Consiglio leg.; 7♀♀, idem., (loc. 54 bis), 14.XI.1973, at light, C. Consiglio leg.; 2♂♂, idem., A. Vigna Taglianti leg.; 4♂♂, 11♀♀, idem., (loc. 54 ter), 15.XI.1973, at light, C. Consiglio leg. – Somalia: 4♂♂, [SO.02] Lower Shabelle, Afgooye, Lafoole (Facoltà di Agraria), 7-12. V.1988, A. Vigna Taglianti leg.; 2♂♂, (SO.14) Togdheer, Sheikh (1440 m), 19-20. V.1988, A. Vigna Taglianti leg.

Distribution – East Africa (Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Zaire, Ethiopia, Somalia). Asia (Arabia Saudita, Yemen). Element of tropical Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Remarks – In Insom & Carfì (1988b) the Fig. 5 was incorrectly referred to as P. somalicus Insom & Carfì, 1988a, but refers to P. interioris (Kolbe, 1897) now considered synonymous with P. papilionoides (Klug, 1834), while the Fig. 6 refers to P. somalicus.

Notes

Published as part of Insom, Emilio & Terzani, Fabio, 2024, Some Neuroptera of the Horn of Africa from the Museum of Zoology of the University of Rome " La Sapienza " (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae, Mantispidae, Ascalaphidae, Myrmeleontidae), pp. 39-52 in Fragmenta entomologica 56 (1) on pages 45-47, DOI: 10.13133/2284-4880/1591, http://zenodo.org/record/12762987

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
V
Event date
1973-11-13 , 1973-11-14 , 1973-11-15 , 1988-05-07 , 1988-05-19
Verbatim event date
1973-11-13 , 1973-11-14 , 1973-11-15 , 1988-05-07/12 , 1988-05-19/20
Scientific name authorship
Kolbe
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Neuroptera
Family
Myrmeleontidae
Genus
Palpares
Species
interioris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Palpares interioris Kolbe, 1897 sec. Insom & Terzani, 2024

References

  • Esben-Petersen, P. 1928. Neuroptera and Embiidina from Abyssinia and Somaliland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1: 442 - 450.
  • Banks N. 1913. Notes on African Myrmeleonidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 21: 149 - 157.
  • Holzel H., Ohm P., Duelli P. 1999. Contribution to the knowledge of the Neuroptera of Ethiopia. Entomofauna, 20: 345 - 369.
  • Aspock H., Holzel H., Aspock U. 2001. Kommentierter Katalog der Neuropterida (Insecta: Raphidioptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera) der Westpalaarktis. Denisia, 2: 1 - 606.
  • Abraham L. 2012. " On the other hand, what is this Eastern aeschnoides? " (Morton 1926) - an undescribed Palpares species from the Eastern Mediterranean (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae). Natura Somogyiensis, 22: 65 - 102.
  • Insom E., Carfi S. 1988 b. Taxonomic studies on Palparini (sensu Markl, 1954). I: The genus Palpares Rambur, 1842 partim (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) with the proposal of its division and description of new genera. Neuroptera International, 5: 57 - 78.
  • Insom E., Carfi S. 1988 a. Parapalpares somalicus (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) new genus and new species from Somalia. Neuroptera International, 5: 83 - 88.
  • Klug J. C. F. 1834. Symbolae physicae, seu icones et descriptiones Insectorum, quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam occidentalem F. G. Hemprich et C. G. Ehrenberg studio novae aut illustratae redierunt. Bd. 4. - Berlin, 1829 - 45: Pl. 35, 36.