Myrmeleon noacki Ohm, 1965

Myrmeleon noacki Ohm, 1965: 108 . Type locality: Greece (West Greece: Zachlorou).

Diagnosis

Myrmeleon noacki can be characterized by a wholly dark brown vertex, without yellow markings; pronotum dark brown, laterally yellow, medially with a narrow longitudinal yellow line at proximal half wings lack pipula axillaris in males; apex of male gonocoxites 9 narrowly arcuated at anterolateral margins in ventral view.

Note

Myrmeleon noacki is known from the southeastern parts of Europe to Turkey, and was recently reported from Iran and Pakistan (Akhtar et al. 2018; Hajiesmaeilian et al. 2020). The reports of Myrmelon noacki from Pakistan need to be re-evaluated and compared with European specimens. Typically, this species is characterized by a narrow median longitudinal yellow marking at proximal half of pronotum and the male genitalia with gonocoxites 9 at anterolateral margins arcuated at anterolateral margins at apex in ventral view (see Ohm 1965: figs 2, 6; Hajiesmaeilian et al. 2020: figs 10, 14). The prothoracic markings and the shape of male genitalia of this species recorded from Pakistan match the typical diagnosis for M. paghmanus: pronotum dark brown, medially with a narrow longitudinal yellow marking, rounded at middle; male gonocoxites 9 arcuate at distal margin in ventral view (see Akhtar et al. 2018: fig. 5a–b; Hölzel 1972: figs 97, 101–102). No new specimens of this species were found in this study.

Distribution

Pakistan: Azad Kashmir (District Bagh); Gilgit-Baltistan (District Gilgit); Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Iran, Turkey (Aspöck et al. 2001; Pantaleoni & Badano 2012; Akhtar et al. 2018; Hassan et al. 2019; Hajiesmaeilian et al. 2020; Oswald 2020).