Nedroledon anatolicus Navás, 1914

Krivokhatsky, Victor, Dobosz, Roland & Ábrahám, Levente, 2022, The new antlion genus Dominikon gen. nov. with the description of a new species Dominikon aspoecki sp. nov. (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), Zootaxa 5196 (1), pp. 94-114 : 96

Nedroledon anatolicus Navás, 1914

Nedroledon anatolicus Navás, 1914:10 ; Hölzel 1972:65; Steffan 1975:34; Aspöck et al. 1980:310; 2001:295; Aspöck, Hölzel 1996:76; Popov 1993: 25; 1996:43; 2002:277; Kačirek 1998:186; 2013: 194; Krivokhatsky 1998:34; Stange 2004:192; Canbulat 2007:46, Dvořák & Georgiev 2018:4

Pteroleon longiventris Navás, 1932:80 ; Kis 1965:363; Kis et al. 1970:311; Hölzel 1972:65 (syn.).

Banatoleon lineatus Kis, 1964:264 ; 1965:363 (syn. of P. longiventris ); Kis et al. 1970:310; Hölzel 1972:65 (syn. of N. anatolicus ).

The type material was checked and the lectotype was designated (present designation) as // Lectotype female / Nedroledon anatolicus / Navás, 1914 / designated: R. Dobosz //, preserved in NHMW, Wien [= Vienna] ( Fig. 1 ).

The holotype of Banatoleon lineatus Kis, 1964 was preserved in the author’s private collection. The collection was later moved to the HNHM in Budapest, but the type specimen is now missing .

Additional material examined: SCM: Bulgaria: 1♂, 10–11. Jul 2022, 1 km E of Kalimanci 310 m leg. Attila Szabó & Eszter Szabó; Romania: 1♀, 20 Jun 1980, Gura Vaii, V. Oglanicului [ Valea Oglanicului Nature Reserve ], leg. Ruicanesus ( Fig. 2 ) . USMB: Bulgaria: 1♂, 08 Jul 2003, Pirin Mts. , Kalimantsi, ad lucem, leg. M. Bunalski ( USMB 5858 /1003) ( Fig. 2a–c ) .

Private collections: Bulgaria: 1♂, 05 Jul 2019 ,, Kresna , leg. Juhász István (in coll.: Zoltán Papp, Hungary) , 1♀, 07 Jul 2021, Blagoevgrad county, Stara Kresna , leg: I. Juhász , 1♀, 08 Jul 2021, Blagoevgrad county, Kalimantsi , leg: I. Juhász (in coll. Levente Székely BraȘov, Romania).

Distribution: Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Romania, Turkey.Relict of Hesperian Palaeogene Subtropical forests ( Krivokhatsky 2011).

Comments: Brauer initially identified the type specimens “ notatus ? det. Brauer” [ Nemoleon notatus (Rambur, 1842) ]; but Navás (1914) described it as a new species. This rare species was described twice more following the original description from collections made in Greece and Romania, and those specimens are now synonyms ( Hölzel 1972). Oswald (2021) listed this species for Hungary, but it has not been collected in that country. Before World War I, the type specimen of Banatoleon lineatus Kis, 1964 was collected in a locality that was within the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, but this area now belongs to Romania.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Lectotype of Nedroledon anatolicus Navás, 1914 in coll. NHMW (Photo: Horst Aspöck)

FIGURE 2. Nedroledon anatolicus male from Bulgaria (in coll. SCM) (Photo: Levente Ábrahám): a—ectoproct, ventral view, b—ectoproct, lateral view, c—tibial spurs on hind leg (Photo: Adam Larysz)