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108 NOTUIvAE ENTOMOI.OGICAE XIJII, 1963
The thorax is blackish brown. The legs are brown with white hairs and the
tibiae especially bear a lot of them.
The wings (fig. 40) are broad with rounded apices. The membrane is grey
and the veins brown. The venation is of the usual Parademidalis type. The
cross-vein between R^ and Rs strikes Rs just before the branching point. The
Sc is rather broad in both wings, but there are no flattened extensions as in
P. longifennis Tjeder. The length of the fore-wing is 2.4—2.9 mm, of the hindwing
2.0—2,4 mm.
The abdomen is ochreous-brown. The male genitalia (figs. 39, 42) show
that P. tamaricis is allied to P. pallida Withycombe and P. harnardi Kimmins.
The ninth segment is synscleritous and its proximal margin i strengthened by
an apodeme. The distal margin is produced into a lateral spine just below the
middle of the segment. Below the spine the distal part of the segment is weak
and unsclerotized. The ventral margin is rounded. The ectoprocts (epr) are
large elongate. The parameres (pa) are fused in their apical part. The basal
portion of each paramere is slender and strongly sclerotized. The male genitalia
most closely resemble those of P.pallida which is described from Egypt,
but the ectoprocts are shorter and the distal spine of the ninth segment is
hooked in P. pallida.
The female genitalia (figs. 37, 41) very much resemble these of P. longipennis.
The eigth and ninth tergites are partly pigmented, as is seen from the
figure and each has a median, rounded extension of the pigmentation on the
hind-margin. They have a narrow apodeme in the fore-margin. The segments
seem to be synscleritous. The ectoprocts (epr) are small and bear short hairs;
they are darkly pigmented in their apical parts. The subanale (sap) is very
prominent, darkly pigmented and bears long hairs. The gonapophyses laterales
(gl) are little pigmented, and bears numerous setae, of which the outermost
six are very long, promined and with hooked ends. These six setae are in
straight line. The female genitalia show that P. tamaricis is allied to P. longipennis.
It is separated by its darker colour and distinctly broader wings.
Ecology: The specimens were captured on Tamarix sp.
Morocco: Ait-MeHoul pr. Oued Sous. 13—15. 2. 1961. 1 cî. 1 ? leg. Lindberg,
1 CÎ, 1 9 leg. Meinander; South Morocco: Targuamait 21.2. 1961. 1 $
leg. Meinander. Holotype no. 6596 (Ait-Melloul) in the Zoological Museum of
Helsingfors.
References
ASPÖCK, H. 1963. Coniopteryx tjederi Kimmins — ein fur Mitteleuropa
ueues Neuropteron. Nachrichtenbl. d. Bayerischen Entomologen 12:41—44. —
CARPENTER, F. & LESTAGE, J. A. 1927. Une sous-famille nouvelle (Fontenelleinae)
du groupe des Coniopterygidae Till. Receuil de l'Inst. zool. Torley-Rousseau,! :
153—172. Bruxelles. — IÎNDERIJÎIN, G. 1905. Ein neuer zu den Coniopterygiden
gehörigen Neuropteren-Typus aus der Umgebung von Berlin. Wien Ent. Zeit.