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Nemoleon poecilopterus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Sulaimani, Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
- 2. The Rippl-Rónai Museum, H- 7400 Kaposvár, Hungary
Description
* Nemoleon poecilopterus (Stein, 1863)
(Fig. 6C)
Material examined: 1♂ IRAQ, Sulaymaniyah, Gapilon, Balkhé Village Qulla Chankh, 35°46’59.9”N, 45°22’34.2”E, 18.IX.2023 leg: Farhad A. Khudhur.
Remarks: This species range extends from southern Europe through the arid mountains of the Middle East to Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia (Aspöck et al. 2001). A distributional record from Niger (Fraser 1950) is unlikely. We report this species as a new country record for Iraq.
This is the only known Nemoleon species in the region. The wing pattern is slightly variable but characteristic of the species (Fig. 6C). On the legs, the tarsal segment 1 is conspicuously elongated, the tibial spurs are straight and as long as the tarsal segment 1.
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 pages 233-234, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5665.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/16608436
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2023-09-18
- Verbatim event date
- 2023-09-18
- Scientific name authorship
- Stein
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Neuroptera
- Family
- Myrmeleontidae
- Genus
- Nemoleon
- Species
- poecilopterus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nemoleon poecilopterus (Stein, 1863) sec. Khudhur & Ábrahám, 2025
References
- Aspock, H., Holzel, H. & Aspock, U. (2001) Kommentierter Katalog der Neuropterida (Insecta: Raphidioptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera) der Westpalaarktis. Denisia, 2, 1-606.
- Fraser, F. C. (1950) Contribution a l'etude de l'Air (Mission L. Chopard et A. Villiers). Odonata and Neuroptera. Memoires de l'Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire, 10, 108-126.