Ascalohybris Sziráki, 1998

Hassan, Muhammad Asghar & Liu, Xingyue, 2021, Taxonomic notes on owlflies from Pakistan (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae Ascalaphinae), Zootaxa 4970 (3), pp. 401-452 : 414-415

Genus Ascalohybris Sziráki, 1998

Ascalohybris Sziráki, 1998: 59 . Type species: Ascalaphus javana Burmeister, 1839: 1001 . Original designation.

Hybris Lefèbvre, 1842: 6 . Type species: Ascalaphus javana Burmeister, 1839: 1001 . Original designation.

Diagnosis. Ascalohybris can be distinguished from Glyptobasis McLachlan and Nousera Navás by the lack of distinct triangular projection on the anal area in forewing and from all other split-eyed owlfly genera except Acheron by the presence of three rows of cells beyond Sc+R vein ( van der Weele 1909: fig. 184).

Note. The genus Hybris was originally described by Lefèbvre (1842), with Ascalaphus javana Burmeister, 1839 as the type species, but later recognized as a junior homonym of a bird genus ( Aves), Hybris Nitzsch, 1833 by Oswald & Penny (1991). Sziráki (1998) in the annotated checklist of Ascalaphidae from Asia and the Pacific Islands provided a new name for Hybris , i.e., Ascalohybris Sziráki, 1998 . Currently Ascalohybris includes a single species, Ascalohybris javana ( Burmeister, 1839) in Pakistan. In the annotated checklist of Ascalaphidae from Asia and the Pacific Islands, Sziráki (1998) recorded this sepcies from Pakistan (Sindh province: Karachi). Other records about the exact locality, number of specimens or distribution data in Pakistan are not available. No new specimens were recorded in this study.