Neuroleon nubilatus ( Navás, 1912 ), Navas, 1912

Michel, Bruno & Akoudjin, Massouroudini, 2012, Review of Neuroleon Navás of West Africa with descriptions of four new species (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae), Zootaxa 3519, pp. 32-52 : 43

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Neuroleon nubilatus ( Navás, 1912 )
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Neuroleon nubilatus ( Navás, 1912)

( Figs. 34–40 View FIGURES 34 – 40 )

Klapalekus nubilatus Navás, 1912: 46 .

Neuroleon nubilatus (Navás) : Stange 2004 (new combination).

Oligoleon longipennis Esben-Petersen, 1931: 202 , syn. nov.

Neuroleon longipennis (Esben-Petersen) : Hölzel 1972 (new combination).

Diagnosis. Medium sized species ( Fig. 34 View FIGURES 34 – 40 ). Tibial spurs of fore and middle legs shorter than T 1. Tibial spurs of hind legs minute or absent.

Redescription. Head. Face yellow with black marking surrounding base of antennae ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 34 – 40 ). Thorax. Pronotum pattern as in figure 36. Foreleg. Coxa yellow with row of about 10 long white setae. Femur dark dorsally covered by flat-lying white setae, and four to five black and five to six erect white setae. Tibia with incomplete dark ring at the apical 1 / 3 and dark distally. Five to six erect black or white setae. Tibial spurs about ½ of T 1. Tarsomeres dark apically. Middle leg. As in foreleg. Hind leg. Yellow. Tibial spurs minute (about 0.05 µ) or absent. Wings. Forewing 3 15–18 mm, ♀ 12–21 mm. Hind wing 3 15–18 mm, ♀ 12–20 mm. Membrane hyaline. Veins yellowish. Longitudinal veins brown at the junctions with crossveins. Forewing. No crossveins in apical field. Cubital mark conspicuous. Gradates brown. Pterostigma brown basally. Hind wing. Longitudinal veins suffused apically along the posterior margin ( Fig. 34 View FIGURES 34 – 40 ). In some males shaded area less visible. Abdomen. 3 10–13 mm, ♀ 11–13 mm. Brown with large lateral yellow stripes not always visible on dried specimen ( Fig. 37 View FIGURES 34 – 40 ). Male. Parameres long with a seta on inner margin. Gonosaccus with six to seven long setae. Extremity of sub-genital plate flat ( Figs 38, 39 View FIGURES 34 – 40 ). Gonarcus U-shaped. Female. Gonapophyseal plate stout and straight ( Fig. 40 View FIGURES 34 – 40 ).

Type material examined. Klapalekus nubilatus Navás, 1912 . Type ♀ Zungeru [09° 48 ’N 06°09’E] NIGERIA (Coll. BMNH) GoogleMaps . Oligoleon longipennis Esben-Petersen, 1931 . Type ♀ Port Sudan [19 ° 37 ’N 37 ° 12 ’E] SUDAN (Coll. NHMW) GoogleMaps

Additional material examined (103, 13 ♀♀). MALI Sikasso 1 ♀ 15.II. 1996, Wayerma District, light trap. Natiékoura 1 ♀ 24.II. 1997, between 16:00– 17:00 ; 33 04.III. 1998 ; 33 18.III. 1996. Koulikoro [13 ° 48 ’N 07° 26 ’W] GoogleMaps 1 ♀ 04.XI. 1995. Banamba 1 ♀ 08.XII. 1991 at light, degraded savannah with trees, fields and mango orchards, ½ km from dry stream, J. Beerlink leg. ( ZMAN). BURKINA FASO Bobo-Dioulasso 13 10.III. 2005, Forest of the Kou, gallery forest J. Bouyer leg. ; 1 ♀ 26.III. 2010 ; 1 ♀ 29.III. 2010 ; 13 09.IV. 2010 ; 1 ♀ 19.V. 2010, ONEA ; 13 06.X. 2009 ; 1 ♀ 29.X. 2009, all M. Akoudjin leg. W National Parc [11 ° 52 ’N 02°07’E] GoogleMaps 13 5 ♀♀ 01.IV. 2003, J. Bouyer leg.

Ecology. In Mali and Burkina Faso adults fly at the end of the rainy season and during the dry season.

Distribution. Probably widely distributed within the Sudano-Sahelian region.

NHMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

ZMAN

Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoologie, Zoologisch Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Neuroptera

Family

Myrmeleontidae

Genus

Neuroleon

Loc

Neuroleon nubilatus ( Navás, 1912 )

Michel, Bruno & Akoudjin, Massouroudini 2012
2012
Loc

Neuroleon nubilatus (Navás)

Esben-Petersen 1931: 202
1931
Loc

Klapalekus nubilatus Navás, 1912: 46

Navas 1912: 46
1912