Dilar lineolatus Navas , 1909

Aspoeck, Ulrike, Liu, Xingyue & Aspoeck, Horst, 2015, The Dilaridae of the Balkan Peninsula and of Anatolia (Insecta, Neuropterida, Neuroptera), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 62 (2), pp. 123-135 : 123-124

Taxon classification Animalia Neuroptera Dilaridae

Dilar lineolatus Navas, 1909 Figs 11-13

Dilar lineolatus Navás, 1909: Navás 1914, Monserrat 1988, Oswald 1998.

Remarks.

This species was described on the basis of a specimen from "Turkmenien (Tekke)". Turkmenien is the old German word for that part of western Central Asia which is largely identical with the present Turkmenistan. In his description of the species Navás (1909) translated “Turkmenien” as “Turcomania”. Later “Turcomania” was erroneously interpreted as Turkey by Oswald (1998). “Tekke” is a frequent geographic name also in Anatolia, and thus Oswald (1998) decided to choose a locality named “Tekke” situated in Turkey as the type locality of Dilar lineolatus . He even gave the geographic coordinates: 40°09 ’N/29°41’, which is certainly wrong. Possibly, Oswald’s (1998) interpretation gave rise to the subsequent records in Anatolia ( Canbulat and Kiyak 2005). We do not think that Dilar lineolatus really occurs in Turkey. The type locality of Dilar lineolatus should be somewhere far more in the east.

The holotype of Dilar lineolatus (Figs 11-13) is in poor condition. It is a female, but it lacks the abdomen. Only one forewing and the hindwings are present. We (H.A. & U.A.) examined this specimen already in 1967 ( H. Aspöck and U. Aspöck 1968) and our opinion on this species of that time can now be confirmed: Dilar lineolatus is a valid and distinct species and cannot be assigned to any of the species recorded from Western and/or Central Asia. The coloration of the wings and of the wing venation is rather dark and characteristic so that it may be possible to clarify the species. However, at present Dilar lineolatus has to be regarded as a nomen dubium, because due to the lack of the genitalia a clarification of the taxonomic status of this species is not possible.