NOTULAE ENTOMOLOGICAE - Helda

MARTIN MEINANDER, CONIOPTERYGIDAE (NEUROPTERA) FROM MOROCCO i 01
Fig. 33—36: Parasemidalis f usea u. sp.
Fig. 33: male genital segments, lateral, fig. 34: head, lateral, fig. 35: female genital
segments, lateral, fig. 36: ditto, caudal.
Parasemidalis f ti s c a n. sp. (figs. 33—36)
A big dark species with dark greyish brown wings. The species has hardly
any covering of the whitish waxy substance peculiar to the coniopterygids.
lycngth of the body about 2.9 mm.
The head (fig. 34) is wholly dark brown. The frons bears distinct white
hairs. The eyes of the females are small and blackish, these of the males large,
hemispherical and usually bluish grey. The ocular diaphragm is blackish
around the rather large foramen. The vertex is raised and the genae are broad.
The palpi are brown. The first segment of the maxillary palpi are slighthly
curved and short. The second segment is shorter tlian the first, and the third
and the fourth are about as long as the first. The last segments is very long,
about three times as long as the first, but slender and not thicker than the
fourth segment. The first and second segments of the labial palpi are very
short; the last segment is not especially large. The antennae are dark brown,
40- to 44-segmented, The scape is short, not longer than broad; the pedicel
is shortly elongate. In the proximal portion the segments of the flagellum are
as long as broad, in the distal portion a little longer than broad. The mandibles
are blackish.