Some Neuroptera of the Horn of Africa from the Museum of Zoology of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae, Mantispidae, Ascalaphidae, Myrmeleontidae)

Abstract

The study of Neuroptera from the Horn of Africa preserved in collections of the Museum of Zoology of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and those collected several years ago by the late entomologist Prof. A. Vigna Taglianti (Rome), contributes to increasing our knowledge of the neuropterological fauna for this part of East Africa. We give a description of the female of Apertochrysa eurydera (Navás, 1910) and a comparison between the male of Stenares completus Banks, 1915 (of which only the female was known) and that of S. irroratus Navás, 1912 (based on a specimen preserved in the Museum of Zoology of the University of Florence).