Subilla principiae Pantaleoni, U. Aspoeck , Cao & H. Aspoeck , 2005

Aspoeck, Horst & Aspoeck, Ulrike, 2023, The snakeflies of the Mediterranean islands: review and biogeographical analysis (Neuropterida, Raphidioptera), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 70 (1), pp. 175-218 : 175

Subilla principiae Pantaleoni, U. Aspoeck, Cao & H. Aspoeck, 2005

Subilla principiae Pantaleoni, U. Aspöck, Cao & H. Aspöck, 2005 (odescr); H. Aspöck and U. Aspöck 2007a (biogeogr, distr); H. Aspöck and U. Aspöck 2007 (ill: ♂ imag); H. Aspöck 2012 (cat); H. Aspöck and U. Aspöck 2013 (cat, etymol), 2014 (cat).

Taxonomy.

Pantaleoni et al. (2005). S. principiae (Fig. 4h ) can clearly be differentiated from all other species of the genus by characters of the male and female genitalia. Moreover, the species can be readily recognized in the field by the dark long pterostigma. There is no particularly close relationship to any other Subilla species.

Biology and ecology.

So far larvae were found exclusively under the bark of Quercus pubescens . Only known from the type locality - a light oak forest - at 1050 m. Adults: V-VI.

Records on Mediterranean islands

(Fig. 10b ). Sardinia. The species is endemic to Sardinia, possibly it occurs also in Corsica. Syntopic Raphidioptera : Fibla maclachlani .

Biogeography.

Stationary Tyrrhenian faunal element.

Figures

Figure 4. a. Phaeostigma (Magnoraphidia) wewalkai, ♂. Greece, Korinthia, Oros Onia. Foto: F. Anderle, now Denner; b. Phaeostigma (Magnoraphidia) wewalkai, ♀. Greece, Korinthia, Oros Onia. Foto: P. Sehnal; c. Phaeostigma (Aegeoraphidia) biroi, ♂. Greece, Crete, Anogia> Axos. Foto: P. Sehnal; d. Phaeostigma (Aegeoraphidia) biroi, ♀. Greece, Crete, Anogia> Axos. Foto: P. Sehnal; e. Phaeostigma (Aegeoraphidia) biroi, larva. Greece, Crete, Anogia> Axos. Foto: H. Bruckner; f. Phaeostigma (Superboraphidia) minois, ♂. Greece, Crete, Levka Ori, W Omalos. Foto: H. Aspoeck; g. Subilla confinis, ♂. Lower Austria, Klosterneuburg. Foto: H. Bruckner; h. Subilla principiae, ♂. Italy, Sardinia, Gennargentu, Fonni. Watercolour by Wilhelm Zelenka (1936 - 2011), Vienna. In the possession of H. & U. Aspoeck.

Figure 10. a. Records of Phaeostigma (Crassoraphidia) cyprica, and of Ulrike syriaca, on Mediterranean islands; b. Records of species of the genus Subilla, S. confinis, S. artemis, S. principiae, and S. colossea, on Mediterranean islands.