Ascalaphini Lefèbvre, 1842

Ardila-Camacho, Adrian, Noriega, Jorge Ari & Acevedo-Ramos, Fernando, 2019, New genera records of split-eyed owlflies (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae: Ascalaphinae) from Colombia, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) 59, pp. 1-18 : 2

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https://doi.org/ 10.11606/1807-0205/2019.59.51

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scientific name

Ascalaphini Lefèbvre, 1842
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Tribe Ascalaphini Lefèbvre, 1842

In the New World, the tribe Ascalaphini is represent- ed by two genera: Fillus Navás, 1919 , with three species, and Nephelasca Navás, 1914 with one ( Table 1). Both genera were traditionally included within Suhpalacsini ( Navás, 1914; Machado & Rafael, 2011; Machado et al., 2019) which was created by Van der Weele (1909). The definition of Suhpalacsini is not well understood, and some authors considered them para- or polyphyletic ( Tjeder & Hansson, 1992; Michel & Mansell, 2018). Such a tribe was separated from Ululodini because the presence of a well-developed fork of CuP on the hind wing, and a prominent process on the first abdominal segment of the males ( Penny, 1981a). Suhpalacsini members were separated by the wing shape, relative lengths of fore- and hind wings,and presence,form, and position of male tergal processes ( New, 1984). Before this classification, Van der Weele (1909) described Acmonotus paradoxus based on a female specimen from Paraguay and placed it within Acmonotini as the only representative of this group in the New World. Then, Navás (1914) proposed Nephelasca which was grouped within Suhpalacsini . In a further work, Navás (1919) erected Fillus from a male specimen from Argentina, and synonymized Acmonotini and Suhpalacsini , the author mentioned that Fillus has intermediate characteristics between Disparomitus Van der Weele, 1909 (Sub-saharian Africa and Yemen) and Acmonotus McLachlan, 1871 ( Australia) . Penny (1981a) revised the generic classification of the New World Ascalaphidae and indicates that because the tribe Suhpalacsini is defined from male characters, the tribal affiliation of Nephelasca remains uncertain.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Neuroptera

Family

Ascalaphidae

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