Author(s): Sziráki, Gy.
Title: Contribution to knowledge of female internal genitalia of Neuroptera
Year: 2002
Volume: 48
Pages: 341-349.
Abstract: In continuing earlier research on female internal genitalia (FEIG) of Neuroptera, further examinations were carried out on some species of the families Coniopterygidae and Ascalaphidae. In the coniopterygid subgenus Metaconiopteryx Kis, 1968 the correct association of females with the corresponding males became possible as a result of the examination of FEIG of the type material of Coniopteryx (Metaconiopteryx) arcuata Kis, 1965. A comparison of male and female internal genitalia in this subgenus suggests that a lock and key mechanism was involves in the evolution of this group. As regards the family Ascalaphidae, four taxa, Ascalaphus sinister Walker, 1853, Bubopsis andromache firyuzae Sziráki, 2000 (Ascalaphinae), Idricerus sogdianus McLachlan, 1875 and Protidricerus elwesi (McLachlan, 1875) (Haplogleniinae) were investigated. In FEIG of these species no distinctive features were found for separation of the two ascalaphid subfamilies.
Keywords: male genitalia, Ascalaphidae, Coniopterygidae, female internal genitalia, lock and key mechanism, Metaconiopteryx
Journal: Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
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ISSN: 1217-8837
Publisher: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest
Editor(s): Matskási, I., Peregovits, L. & Sziráki, Gy.
