NOTULAE ENTOMOLOGICAE - Helda

MARTIN MEINANDER, CONIOPTERYGIDAE (NEUROPTERA) FROM MOROCCO i 01
The coast of Tantan 4. 3. 1961. 21 specimens leg, Meinander, 1 Ç on halophytes
leg. Undberg; Puerto Cansado 7—8. 3. 1961. 1 $ leg. Lindberg, 1 $ on halophytes
leg. Meinander. Holotype no. 6586 (Tantan) in the Zoological Museum
of Helsingfors.
Coniopteryx atlasensis n. sp. (figs. 21—25)
A very small pale species with hyaline wings. The species is sparcely covered
with white wax. Length of body 0.8—0.9 mm.
The head (fig. 23) is yellowish brown. The eyes are black; the ocular diaphragm
is broadly blackish around the foramen. The vertex is raised and the
genae broad. The palpi are pale brown and of ordinary shape and size. The
antennae are 25-segmented, in the proximal portion ochreous brown, in the
distal portion dark brown. The scape is stout and bent inwards, the pedicel is
long and slender and all but the first three segments of the flagellum are longer
than board. The mandibles are brown.
The thorax is yellpwish; the meso- and metathorax have a large blackishbrown
spot on each side. The legs are greyish brown.
The wings are rather short and broad with rounded apices. The membranes
of both wings are greyish. The veins are brown and the venation is of the usual
Pig. 21—25: Coniopteryx atlasensis n. sp.
I'ig. 21: male genital segments, lateral, fig. 22: ditto, caudal, fig. 23: Head, lateral,
fig. 24: female genital segments, lateral, fig. 25: ditto, caudal.