Palpares interioris Kolbe, 1897: 9

Insom, Emilio & Terzani, Fabio, 2024, Some Neuroptera of the Horn of Africa from the Museum of Zoology of the University of Rome “ La Sapienza ” (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae, Mantispidae, Ascalaphidae, Myrmeleontidae), Fragmenta entomologica 56 (1), pp. 39-52 : 45-47

Palpares interioris Kolbe, 1897: 9 (Od).

Palpares tristis var. ugandanus Stitz, 1912: 106 (Od), fide Esben-Petersen, 1928: 443.

Palpares interioris : Banks, 1913: 181, pl. 21, fig. 49 (Ct); Van der Weele, 1922: 321, Pl. In 2, figs. 2-4 (Mont Karoli, Afrique Orientale Anglaise) (Ct); Esben-Petersen, 1928: 443 (Syn).

Palpares papilionoides : Banks, 1913: 188 (Tax); Esben-Petersen, 1928: 443 (Rd); Hölzel et al., 1999: 363 (Dst); Aspöck et al., 2001: 228 (Tax, Dst, Syn); Ábrahám 2012: 87 (Tax, Dst).

Parapalpares interioris : Insom & Carfì, 1988b (Tax).

Specimens examined – Ethiopia: 7♀♀, Gemu Gofa, (loc. 54) Arba Mintch (ca. 1570 m), 13.XI.1973, C. Consiglio leg. ; 7♀♀, idem., (loc. 54 bis), 14.XI.1973, at light, C. Consiglio leg. ; 2♂♂, idem., A. Vigna Taglianti leg. ; 4♂♂, 11♀♀, idem., (loc. 54 ter), 15.XI.1973, at light, C. Consiglio leg. – Somalia: 4♂♂, [SO.02] Lower Shabelle, Afgooye, Lafoole ( Facoltà di Agraria ), 7-12. V.1988, A. Vigna Taglianti leg. ; 2♂♂, (SO.14) Togdheer, Sheikh (1440 m), 19-20. V.1988, A. Vigna Taglianti leg.

Distribution – East Africa ( Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Zaire, Ethiopia, Somalia). Asia ( Arabia Saudita, Yemen). Element of tropical Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Remarks – In Insom & Carfì (1988b) the Fig. 5 was incorrectly referred to as P. somalicus Insom & Carfì, 1988a , but refers to P. interioris (Kolbe, 1897) now considered synonymous with P. papilionoides ( Klug, 1834) , while the Fig. 6 refers to P. somalicus .