Myrmeleon clothilde Banks, 1913

Hassan, Muhammad Asghar, Zheng, Yuchen & Liu, Xingyue, 2022, Taxonomic notes on the antlion tribe Myrmeleontini Latreille (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae, Myrmeleontinae) from Pakistan, with description of a new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 831, pp. 1-44 : 35

Myrmeleon clothilde Banks, 1913

Myrmeleon clothilde Banks, 1913: 223 . Type locality: India (Bihar: Samastipur, Pusa).

Diagnosis

Myrmeleon clothilde can be characterized by wholly dark brown vertex with yellow markings at distal half in dorsal view; pronotum dark brown, laterally slightly narrow yellow at proximal half; medially with two narrow longitudinal yellow stripes at proximal to anterior transverse furrow ( Iqbal & Yousuf 1992: fig. 1a).

Note

Since its original description, this species was rarely mentioned in literature ( Iqbal & Yousuf 1992, 1997; Ghosh 2000; Stange 2004). After reviewing the aforementioned literature from Pakistan and India, we found that the male genitalia of this species have not been described so far. However, further additional data on the male genitalia and distribution of this rarely known species in Pakistan need to be updated in further studies. No new specimens of this species were found in this study.

Distribution

Pakistan: Punjab Province (District Faisalabad); India, Sri Lanka ( Iqbal & Yousuf 1992, 1997; Ghosh 2000; Stange 2004; Hassan et al. 2019; Oswald 2020).