Suhpalacsa jianfanglingana ( Yang, 2002 ) Yang, 2002

Wang, Xinli, Sun, Mingxia & Liang, Aiping, 2008, New species of the owl-fly genus Suhpalacsa Lefèbvre from China (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae), Zootaxa 1808, pp. 53-60 : 54

Suhpalacsa jianfanglingana ( Yang, 2002) comb. nov.

Acheron jianfanglinganus Yang, 2002 , p. 300.

Male: Body length 36–38mm; abdomen length 26–27mm; forewing length 32–34mm; hindwing length 26– 27mm; antennae length 22–24mm.

Female: Body length 27mm; abdomen length 19mm; forewing length 33mm; hindwing length 27mm; antennae length 21mm.

Colouration. Head: Vertex and occiput dark brown; face, clypeus and labrum yellow; mandible redbrown with black apex; maxillary and labial palpi brown. Antenna pale brown with clubbed apex dark brown; eyes black. Thorax: Nota brown, medially dark brown, without distinct markings. Lateral view of mesothorax and metathorax yellow except prothorax brown. Legs with femora pale brown, tibiae and tarsi brown; spurs and claws red-brown. Wings hyaline, Sc and R1 with cross-veins yellow brown; costal area infuscate, pterostigma yellow brown, apical area mostly hyaline except for area close to pterostigma yellow-brown. Abdomen: Red-brown with black margin on each segment.

Vestiture. Head with dense, long, yellow-brown and black hairs, especially on vertex and between antennae; thorax with sparse, long hairs; abdomen with sparse, shorter hairs.

Venation. Apical area of forewings with cells in three rows, apical area of hindwings with cells in 2–3 rows. 5–6 rows cells in cubital area of forewings, 3–4 rows cells in cubital area of hindwings.

Male genitalia. Ectoprocts with long finger-like prominence ventrally. Gonarcus and parameres united, parameres with a row of spines, pelta present.

Female genitalia. Ventrovalvae long and narrow, with long black hairs. Interdens and linguella unconspicuous.

Material examined. male Holotype, Jianfengling, Prov. Hainan, 1983. IV.27, Gu Maobin leg. (CAU- N 200184). male Paratype, Jianfengling, Prov. Hainan, 1983. V.11, Gu Maobin leg. (CAU-N 200185). male, Huanan Botanic Garden, Guangzhou, 1991. V.3, Li Fasheng leg. (CAU-N 200369). female, Nada, Prov. Hainan, 1963. V.27, Zhou Yao leg. (CAU-N 200186).

Distribution. China: Hainan, Guangdong.

Remarks. The diagnostic characters of Acheron are the basal flagellomeres of male with distinct spines, apical area of forewings wide with cells in four rows, apical area of hindwings with cells in 3–4 rows. cubital area of wings obviously wider than apical area of wings. In this species the basal flagellomeres are without any spines, the apical area of the forewing is narrow with cells in three rows, the apical area of the hindwing with cells in 2–3 rows, and the cubital area of wings almost equals width of the apical area. All characters of these specimens show that this species should be moved from Acheron into Suhpalacsa .