Published July 22, 2025 | Version v1

Dielocroce ephemera

  • 1. Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Sulaimani, Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
  • 2. The Rippl-Rónai Museum, H- 7400 Kaposvár, Hungary

Description

Dielocroce ephemera (Gerstaecker, 1894)

(Fig. 3C and E)

Dielocroce ephemera (Gerstaecker, 1894): 172 (Odescr), Hölzel 1975: 71 (Dist), Aspöck et al. 2001: 203 (Mon).

Material examined: 2♀ IRAQ, Erbil, Choman, Khoshkan Village, 36°36’04,5”N, 44°56’11.8”E, 05.VII.2024, leg: Farhad A. Khudhur.

Remarks: Iranoeremian faunal element. Its distribution data has been documented from Eastern Anatolia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Iraq (Aspöck et al. 2001).

The pterostigma of the forewing of this species is dark basally and white distally. Dark shadows are on both sides of the cross-veins in the costal area of the forewing (Fig. 3C).

Notes

Published as part of Khudhur, Farhad A. & Ábrahám, Levente, 2025, A report on the lacewing fauna of Iraqi Kurdistan (Neuroptera: Mantispidae, Nemopteridae, Myrmeleontidae, Ascalaphidae), pp. 223-238 in Zootaxa 5665 (2) on page 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5665.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/16608436

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2024-07-05
Verbatim event date
2024-07-05
Scientific name authorship
Gerstaecker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Neuroptera
Family
Nemopteridae
Genus
Dielocroce
Species
ephemera
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dielocroce ephemera (Gerstaecker, 1894) sec. Khudhur & Ábrahám, 2025

References

  • Holzel, H. (1975) Revision der Netzflugler-Unterfamilie Crocinae (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae). Entomologica Germanica, 2, 44-97. https://doi.org/10.1127/entom.germ/2/1975/44
  • Aspock, H., Holzel, H. & Aspock, U. (2001) Kommentierter Katalog der Neuropterida (Insecta: Raphidioptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera) der Westpalaarktis. Denisia, 2, 1-606.