Myrmecosepsis taprobane ANDERSSON, 1977
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Myrmecosepsis taprobane ANDERSSON, 1977 View in CoL
ANDERSSON, 1977: 75, type locality Ceylon ( Sri Lanka); drawing of adult, head, wing and female terminalia .
Material examined: Vietnam: Hanoi, meadow, 7– 8.10.1990 (Belokobylski), 1 m, 3 f. Thailand: T1040 Chaiyaphum, Pa Hin Ngam NP, Ecotone between mixed deciduous and dry dipterocarp forest, 15°34.913’N 101°25.658’E, 444 m GoogleMaps , 28.xi.2006 – 4.xii.2006, Malaise trap, Katae Sa-nog & Buakaw Adnafai, 1 m, 1 f.
The species was described from Sri Lanka and this is the second record of the species in the literature and the first record for Thailand. In the collection of the National Museum of Wales , Dept. of Zoology , there are 5 m, 5 f labelled “ India, West Bengal, Chandra neswar, 1.x.1983, S.S. Islam ” ( JOHN DEEMING, pers. comm.) .
Another species of the genus, M. hystrix KERTÉSZ, 1914 , was described from
Taiwan, but was not recorded after the first description.
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