Solter rothschildi Navás, 1913b

Michel, Bruno, 2014, A revision of the genus Solter Navás, 1912 for Maghreb and West Africa with descriptions of five new species (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae), Zootaxa 3887 (5), pp. 529-554 : 543-546

9. Solter rothschildi Navás, 1913b

Figs 51–55 , 75, 76 , 85 .

Solter rothschildi Navás, 1913b: 450 .

In his description Navás did not designate a specimen as holotype and all the specimens of the type series in the Museum of Natural History in London are labeled as syntypes. Consequently a lectotype is designated here and four others specimens of the type series I examined are designated as paralectotypes.

Redescription. Medium-sized species ( Fig. 51 ). Forewing 24–26 mm, hind wing 22–24 mm. Body almost uniformly ochre yellow to light brown. Bands of abdominal tergites with low contrasting colors. Last segment of labial palp slightly swollen, spindle-shaped ( Fig.53 ); palpimacula small and oval. Tibial spurs of fore and mid legs extending beyond tarsomere 2, slightly shorter than tarsomeres 1+ 2 in hind legs ( Fig 55 ). Female sternite 7 largely rounded apically. Spermatheca without sharp bent angle ( Fig. 85 ). In male, gonarcus regularly arched ( Fig. 75 ,). Parameres rectangular with posterior surface flat and inner edge of basal half strongly raised forward ( Fig. 76 ).

Material examined. Lectotype ♂ ALGERIA wadi Mya [approx. 29.14710 3.34127] 18.v.1912. Paralectotypes ALGERIA South of Ghardaïa 2♀♀ 26–30.v.1912, Hartert & Hilg. leg.; wadi Nssa (Ghardaïa to Guerrara) 2♀♀ 3–5.vi.1912, Hartert & Hilg. leg. (all BMNH 1927-307).

Distribution ( Fig. 86 ). Known from Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt ( Aspöck et al., 2001; Stange, 2004).

Figures

FIGURE 86. Distribution of the Solter species represented in the area covered by the study.

FIGURES 51 – 55. Solter rothschildi. 51 — Habitus of lectotype ♂ (BMNH). 52 — Face. 53 — Last segment of labial palp. 54 — Head and thorax, dorsal view. 55 — Hind tarsus. (Legend as in fig. 5).

FIGURES 74 – 80. 74 – 76. Male genitalia of Solter spp. 74 — S. neglectus, fronto-lateral view. 75 — S. rothschildi, caudal view. 76 — idem, lateral view. 77 – 80. Hypandrium internum. 77 — S. bouyeri. 78 — S. dogon. 79 — S. francoisi. 80 — S. liber. (Legend as in figures 61 – 67).

FIGURES 81 – 85. Spermatheca. 81 — S. liber specimen A. 82 — idem, specimen B. 83 — S. neglectus specimen A. 84 — idem specimen B. 85 — S. rothschildi.