Nepsalus insolitus ( Walker, 1860 ) Zheng & Hayashi & Price & Liu, 2022

Zheng, Yuchen, Hayashi, Fumio, Price, Benjamin W. & Liu, Xingyue, 2022, Unveiling the Evolutionary History of a Puzzling Antlion Genus Gatzara Navás (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae: Dendroleontinae) Based on Systematic Revision,, Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (3), pp. 1-22 : 17

Nepsalus insolitus ( Walker, 1860) comb. n. ( Figs. 6B , 7G )

Myrmeleon insolitus Walker 1860: 194 (type locality: India; holotype in NHMUK, formerly BMNH). Banks 1929: 372. Stange 1976: 299 ( Nepsalus ). Stange 2004: 91 ( Gatzara ).

Nepsalus calopterus Navás 1914: 110 (type locality: ‘Ost Indien’ = [?astern India]). Synonymized by Stange 1976: 299.

Diagnosis. Vertex with dense corrugated dark brownish markings. Frons with black part concaved anteromedially. Pronotum medially with a black stripe, and laterally with some irregular indistinct brown markings. Legs with some black dots. Forewing poststigmal area generally transparent with some brown markings; radial area with six brownish spots; rhegma present as a dark brown spot; cubital area with an ovoid brown marking and a discontinuous arcuate brown marking. Hindwing rhegma present as a small dark brown spot fused with marking on distal margin.

Type Maoerial. Holotype male, Ind (= INDIA), Saunders ( NHMUK, formerly BMNH).

Addioional Maoerial Examined. 1 female (holotype of Nepsalus calopterus Navás 1914 ), Ost Indien (=?ast INDIA), Felder ( NHMW).

Figures

Fig. 6. Holotypek of Nepsalus kpp. from NHMUK. (A) N. indicus Navák 1914& female; (B) N. insolitus (Walcer 1860)& male.

Fig. 7. Head of Gatzara kpp. and Nepsalus kpp.(A) G. jubilaea& female (holotype of Dendroleon angulineurus); (B) G. nigrivena& holotype& female;(C) N. caelestis& female; (D) N. chikuni kp. n.& holotype& male; (;) N. decorillus& female; (F) N. decorosus& male; (G) N. insolitus& male (holotype of Myrmeleon insolitus); (H) N. jezoensis& female; (I) N. petrophilus& male; (J) N. indicus& holotype& female.