Ascalaphini Lefèbvre, 1842

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Tribe Ascalaphini Lefèbvre, 1842

In the New World, the tribe Ascalaphini is represent- ed by two genera: Fillus Navás, 1919 , with three species, and Nephelasca Navás, 1914 with one ( Table 1). Both genera were traditionally included within Suhpalacsini ( Navás, 1914; Machado & Rafael, 2011; Machado et al., 2019) which was created by Van der Weele (1909). The definition of Suhpalacsini is not well understood, and some authors considered them para- or polyphyletic ( Tjeder & Hansson, 1992; Michel & Mansell, 2018). Such a tribe was separated from Ululodini because the presence of a well-developed fork of CuP on the hind wing, and a prominent process on the first abdominal segment of the males ( Penny, 1981a). Suhpalacsini members were separated by the wing shape, relative lengths of fore- and hind wings,and presence,form, and position of male tergal processes ( New, 1984). Before this classification, Van der Weele (1909) described Acmonotus paradoxus based on a female specimen from Paraguay and placed it within Acmonotini as the only representative of this group in the New World. Then, Navás (1914) proposed Nephelasca which was grouped within Suhpalacsini . In a further work, Navás (1919) erected Fillus from a male specimen from Argentina, and synonymized Acmonotini and Suhpalacsini , the author mentioned that Fillus has intermediate characteristics between Disparomitus Van der Weele, 1909 (Sub-saharian Africa and Yemen) and Acmonotus McLachlan, 1871 ( Australia) . Penny (1981a) revised the generic classification of the New World Ascalaphidae and indicates that because the tribe Suhpalacsini is defined from male characters, the tribal affiliation of Nephelasca remains uncertain.