Parapalpares Insom & Carfi, 1988

Hassan, Muhammad Asghar, Akhtar, Saleem, Zheng, Yuchen & Liu, Xingyue, 2023, Taxonomic notes on the antlion tribe Palparini Banks (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) from Pakistan, Zootaxa 5256 (6), pp. 565-588 : 579-580

Parapalpares Insom & Carfi, 1988

Parapalpares Insom & Carfi, 1988: 76 .

Type species: Palpares latipennis Rambur, 1842: 374 . Original designation.

Diagnosis. Parapalpares is very similar to Palpares but can be characterized by elongated labial palp with distal clavate palpimacula reaching apex ( Fig. 14D–F ), thorax brownish yellow without distinct median longitudinal brownish stripe ( Fig. 14A ), abdomen uniformly pale yellowish brown ( Fig. 12A–B ), male sternite 9 with round apex ( Fig. 15D ), male ectoprocts cylindrical, moderately curved at base, and male gonocoxites 9 paired and widely separated with each other, with acute apex and acutely tapering basal projection ( Fig. 15E–G ).

Distribution. Afrotropical, Southern Palearctic and Western Oriental ( Stange 2004; Machado et al. 2019).

Remarks. Parapalpares is a small genus with eight valid species, mainly distributed in the Afrotropical (5 spp.), Palaearctic (3 sp.) and Oriental (1 sp.) regions ( Stange 2004; Akoudjin & Michel 2011; Mirmoayedi et al. 2015; Prost 2018; Oswald 2021). Among the Palaearctic species, P. dispar (Navás, 1912) is known from the Palearctic ( Iran) to Afrotropical (Northern Africa, Algeria, Egypt to Oman) region (Stange 2014; Mirmoayedi et al. 2015), P. papilionoides (Klug in Ehrenberg, 1834) is distributed in Afrotropical Africa (southwest and central east) to Arabian Peninsula ( Saudi Arabia, Yemen) and Israel ( Ábrahám 2012; El Hamouly et al. 2019; Oswald 2021), whereas P. solidus (Gerstaecker) is known from the Palaearctic ( Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, and Uzbekistan) to the Oriental ( Pakistan) region (Insom & Carfi 1988; Iqbal & Yousuf 1990: Fig. 16 ).

Figures

FIGURE 12. Parapalpares solidus (Gerstaecker). A. Male habitus; B. Female habitus. Scale bar: 10 mm.

FIGURE 14. Parapalpares solidus (Gerstaecker).A. Thorax, dorsal view; B. Face, frontal view; C. Head and pronotum, dorsal view; D. Labial palp, lateral view; E. Palpimacula, lateral view; F. Same, dorsal view; G. Antenna, lateral view; H. Lateral habitus. Scale bars: 2.0 mm.

FIGURE 15. Parapalpares solidus (Gerstaecker).A. Female genitalia, lateral view; B. Female genitalia, ventral view; C. Male genitalia, lateral view; D. Male genitalia, ventral view; E. Gonocoxites gx 9 + gx 11, dorsal view; F. Gonocoxites gx 9 + gx 11, ventral view; G. Gonocoxites gx 9 + gx 11, lateral view. Scale bar: 0.5 mm.

FIGURE 16. Regional distribution map of Parapalpares solidus (Gerstaecker) in Pakistan.