Owlflies (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae) of Crimea and alied taxa from the West Palaearctic
Since the first information at the end of the 19th Century and up to the present time, the only species of the family Ascalaphidae has been registered in Crimea: Libelloides macaronius (Scopoli, 1763) with two subspecies, L. macaronius kolyvanensis (Laxmann, 1770) (= Ascalaphus longicornis dubius E...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Science, Federal state budgetary institution
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ssc-ras.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7_Krivokhatsky%20et%20al.pdf |
| Summary: | Since the first information at the end of the 19th Century and up to the present time, the only species of the family Ascalaphidae has been registered in Crimea: Libelloides macaronius (Scopoli, 1763) with two subspecies, L. macaronius kolyvanensis (Laxmann, 1770) (= Ascalaphus longicornis dubius Eversmann, 1850, syn. n.) and L. macaronius pupillatus (Rambur, 1842). Each listed subspecies has two colour morphs. Yellow (morpha typica) and white (morpha alba n.) morphs of the subspecies L. macaronius kolyvanensis (Laxmann, 1770) сan be found together in south-east part of Crimea. The second subspecies with two colour morphs, L. macaronius pupillatus (Rambur, 1842) morpha typica and morpha intermedia (Menétriés, 1849), is definitely extinct in Crimea and occurs now in the Kuban and the Volga regions. Subspecific and infrasubspecific structure of Libelloides macaronius is discussed. The key to all subspecies from the Ancient Mediterranean zoogeographical region is given. Information about their bionomics, distribution and occurrence in Crimea over the past 100 years are added. Brief diagnoses of taxa and descriptions of L. macaronius kolyvanensis alba, morpha n. is given. The rank of two species is changed: Libelloides macaronius tajikus Luppova, 1973, stat. n. and L. macaronius oculatus (Brullé, 1832), stat. n. = Ascalaphus kolyvanensis var. ponticus McLachlan, 1876, syn. n. Two subspecies are reduced to morphs: Libelloides longicornis (Linnaeus, 1764), morpha leucocelia Costa, 1855; Libelloides macaronius pupillatus (Rambur, 1842) morpha intermedia Ménétriés, 1849. Some ascalaphid taxa from the Central Palaearctic are interpreted as subspecies of Libelloides macaronius described on the base of typical yellow morphs: L. macaronius turсestanicus (Weele, 1909) and L. macaronius trimaculatus (Weele, 1909). In addition, two white morphs, L. macaronius turcestanicus doboszi morpha n. and L. macaronius trimaculatus letardii morpha n., are described. White morpha was not found for L. macaronius tajikus Luppova, 1973, stat. n. Among Asian taxa, the specimen described by L. Navás as variation, transferred here to the rank aberration Libelloides macaronius kolyvanensis ab. fumata (Navás, 1929), which does not form the biological taxon. |
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| ISSN: | 1814-3326 1814-3326 |