Myrmeleon noacki Ohm, 1965

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 : 36

Myrmeleon noacki Ohm, 1965

Myrmeleon noacki Ohm, 1965: 108 . Type locality: Greece (West Greece: Zachlorou).

Diagnosis

Myrmeleon noacki can be characterized by a wholly dark brown vertex, without yellow markings; pronotum dark brown, laterally yellow, medially with a narrow longitudinal yellow line at proximal half wings lack pipula axillaris in males; apex of male gonocoxites 9 narrowly arcuated at anterolateral margins in ventral view.

Note

Myrmeleon noacki is known from the southeastern parts of Europe to Turkey, and was recently reported from Iran and Pakistan ( Akhtar et al. 2018; Hajiesmaeilian et al. 2020). The reports of Myrmelon noacki from Pakistan need to be re-evaluated and compared with European specimens. Typically, this species is characterized by a narrow median longitudinal yellow marking at proximal half of pronotum and the male genitalia with gonocoxites 9 at anterolateral margins arcuated at anterolateral margins at apex in ventral view (see Ohm 1965: figs 2, 6; Hajiesmaeilian et al. 2020: figs 10, 14). The prothoracic markings and the shape of male genitalia of this species recorded from Pakistan match the typical diagnosis for M. paghmanus : pronotum dark brown, medially with a narrow longitudinal yellow marking, rounded at middle; male gonocoxites 9 arcuate at distal margin in ventral view (see Akhtar et al. 2018: fig. 5a–b; Hölzel 1972: figs 97, 101–102). No new specimens of this species were found in this study.

Distribution

Pakistan: Azad Kashmir (District Bagh); Gilgit-Baltistan (District Gilgit); Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Iran, Turkey ( Aspöck et al. 2001; Pantaleoni & Badano 2012; Akhtar et al. 2018; Hassan et al. 2019; Hajiesmaeilian et al. 2020; Oswald 2020).