Meotica normandi BENICK, 1953

(Figs 78-84)

Meotica normandi BENICK, 1953: 79 f.

Meotica franzi PACE, 1983: 34 f.; nov.syn.

Meotica filaria: PACE (1983) .

Type material examined: Lectotype ♂, present designation: "C. Aïn Senour, Dr. Normand / Meotica Normandi ♂ G. Bck typus [sic] / Coll. G. Benick / Meotica filaria corr. J. Vogel / Lectotypus ♂ Meotica normandi Benick, desig. V. Assing 2018 / Meotica normandi Benick, det. V. Assing 2018" (MHNG). Paralectotypes: 1♂, 2♀♀ [1♀ on same pin as lectotype; spermathecae of ♀♀ missing]: same data as lectotype (MHNG).

Additional material examined: MOROCCO: 1♀, Asilah, stream 4 km S Asilah, 35°25'N, 6°02'W, 25 m, 27.III.2008, leg. Andújar et al. (cAss) . SPAIN: 1♂, Cádiz, Tarifa, I.1996, leg. Poot (cAss); 1♀, same data, but XII.1995 (cWun) .

Comment: The original description of M. normandi is based on an unspecified number of syntypes from "C. Ain-Senour" (BENICK 1953). Two males and two females were found in the Benick collection. One of the males is designated as the lectotype.

PACE (1983) described M. franzi based on a unique male from " Spagna meridionale, dintorni di Algeciras".

A comparison of the illustrations provided by PACE (1083) for M. franzi and M. filaria with the sexual characters of the non-type specimens from the environs of Tarifa and of the type material of M. normandi revealed that M. normandi, M. franzi, and M. filaria sensu PACE (1983) refer to the same species.

Diagnosis: Small species. Body yellowish with segments V-VI and the anterior portion of segment VII more or less distinctly infuscate. Eyes very small. Hind wings reduced. Tergite VIII with truncate posterior margin, without distinct sexual dimorphism.

♂: sternite VIII (Fig. 78) strongly transverse, posterior margin acutely pointed in the middle; median lobe of aedeagus relatively small, 0.20-0.22 mm long, and with short ventral process (Figs 80-83); internal sac with a conspicuously long flagellum; apical lobe of paramere yellowish.

♀: sternite VIII (Fig. 79) noticeably longer than tergite VIII, posterior margin convex, in the middle indistinctly concave; spermatheca rather stout and large in relation to aedeagus, of distinctive shape (Fig. 84).

Confirmed distribution: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, South Spain.