Ogcogaster segmentator Westwood, 1847

Hassan, Muhammad Asghar & Liu, Xingyue, 2021, Taxonomic notes on owlflies from Pakistan (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae Ascalaphinae), Zootaxa 4970 (3), pp. 401-452 : 427-428

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4970.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4912029
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scientific name	Ogcogaster segmentator Westwood, 1847
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Ogcogaster segmentator Westwood, 1847 View in CoL

Ascalaphus (Ogcogaster) segmentator Westwood, 1847: 69 View in CoL . Type locality: Unknown.

Ascalaphus segmentator Westwood, 1847 View in CoL . After Walker, 1853: 421.

Ogcogaster segmentator Westwood, 1847 View in CoL . After Hagen, 1866: 386.

Helicomitus salvatoris Návas, 1924: 220 View in CoL . Type locality: India. After Sala de Castellarnau (1946: 120).

Perissoschema evae Mészáros & Ábrahám, 2003: 346 View in CoL . Type locality: Pakistan (Punjab: Margall Hills, Pir Sohawa). syn. nov.

Diagnosis. This species is unique among its congeners by the presence of bright ochre-yellow pterostigma and distinct brown speckles of crossveins along the costal area, presectoral area, proximal 1/4 of mediocubital area and first row of crossveins between R and Rs in both wings. Moreover, it differs from its congeners by having yellow Sc and R veins and the hind wing with heavily brownish speckles below the pterostigma.

Distribution. Pakistan (Azad Kashmir Territory: District Muzaffarabad; Gilgit-Baltistan Territory: Himalaya; Islamabad Capital Territory: Margalla Hills, Pir Sohava); India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh) ( Ghosh & Sen 1977; Mészáros & Ábrahám 2003; Oswald 2020).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Neuroptera
Family	Ascalaphidae
Genus	Ogcogaster