Ganguilus pulchellus ( Banks, 1911 ) Banks, 1911

Michel, Bruno & Mansell, Mervyn W., 2010, Revision of the genus Ganguilus Navás (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae) with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 2386, pp. 1-24 : 10-11

Ganguilus pulchellus ( Banks, 1911) comb. nov.

( Figs 17–23 )

Macronemurus pulchellus Banks, 1911: 26 .

Neuroleon ? pulchellus (Banks) : Hölzel 1988: 65.

Nelees princeps Navás, 1936: 106 ; Hölzel 1988: 65 (Syn.).

Diagnosis

Medium sized. Body coloration yellow and black. Wings hyaline with black markings. In forewings no black dots between R and MP before RS ( Fig. 17 ).

Redescription

Size. Forewing: 3 26–29, Ƥ 25–28; hind wing: 3 24–27, Ƥ 23–27; length of body: 3 22–23, Ƥ 22–25.

Head. Face yellow with a dark brown marking between antennal toruli. Frons dark yellowish. Vertex yellowish with two darker spots of variable extent. Scape yellow, pedicel brown, flagellomeres yellow. Terminal segment of labial palps slightly enlarged at base, apex acute.

Thorax. Pronotum yellow with lateral black stripes extending from anterior groove to posterior margin, and two median small black markings along posterior margin ( Fig. 18 ). Mesoprescutum yellow, black anteriorly; mesonotum yellow, black anteriorly; mesoscutellum yellow. Metanotum yellow with black markings anteriorly and two black spots on metascutum. Pleurites with dark brown patches of variable extent.

Legs. Yellow. Hind femora brown on apical 2/3. Femoral brush of male with 46 setae. Spurs: in forelegs longer than T1+2, in middle legs longer than T1+2, in hind legs shorter than T1+2.

Wings. Hyaline with black markings. Forewing with two black dots between MP and CuA before CuA fork separated by one crossvein, with 5 crossveins between R and MP before origin of RS; RS arising beyond CuA fork. Veins white, some longitudinal veins with black striations. Stigma yellow and black. Hind wings sub-falcate.

Abdomen. Tergite I black. Tergite II yellow with black marking on anterior half. Tergites III to VIII with median black marking indented laterally. Sternite I black. Sternite II with anterior and median black marking ( Fig. 19 ); following sternites with at least basal half black. Male ectoprocts projected backwards ( Fig. 20 ).

Parameres slender slightly curved ( Figs 21 & 22 ). Female terminalia with developed gonapohyseal plate ( Fig. 23 ).

Material examined

ERITREA: HOLOTYPE 3 / Type [p]/ Erythraea * Kristensen [p]/ Macronemurus * pulchellus * type * Bks [h]/ (ZMKU). ETHIOPIA: Wardere [06°58’N 45°21’E], 1Ƥ, 24.xi.1953, G. Popov (BMNH); Hawash [08°41’N 38°37’E], 13, 2.ix.1926, J.O. Cooper (BMNH). KENYA: Marsabit [02°19’N 37°58’E], 13 1Ƥ, 10.i.1937, B. Benson (ZMKU). Murueris Mount [04°10’N 35°36’E], Turkana, 13, 800–1000 m, C.Arambourg (designated as paralectoype of Nelees princeps Navás, 1936 ) (MNHN). PAKISTAN: Mauripur [24°52’N 66°55’E], 23, 22.viii.1952, L.D. Brongersma (NNM). Specimens in BMNH with origin not located: 1Ƥ without locality, 13 from Alaya-Baha ( Saudi Arabia?), 11.vi.1972.

Distribution

Northern Kenya to Pakistan ( Fig. 51 ).

Figures

FIGURE 17. Ganguilus pulchellus male, habitus.

FIGURES 18 – 19. Ganguilus pulchellus. 18 — Pronotum; 19 — Base of abdomen, right view.

FIGURES 20 – 22. Ganguilus pulchellus male. 20 — Right ectoproct (setae omitted); 21 — Genitalia, right view; 22 — id., ventral view.

FIGURE 23. Ganguilus pulchellus female, extremity of abdomen, right view (gp: gonapophyseal plate).

FIGURE 51. Distribution of Ganguilus species.