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ROBERTO A. PANTALEONI (*) - ULRIKE ASPOCK (**) - OMAR V. CAO (***) - HORST ASPOCK (****)

SUBILIA PRINCIPIAE N. SP., A NEW SPECTACULAR SNAKEFLY FROM (RAPHIDIOPTERA RAPHIDIIDAE)

(*) CNR-ISE Sez. Ecologia applicata e Controllo bioiogico, via Enrico De Nicola, 1- 07100 Sassari SS, e-mail: [email protected]. tH) Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Zweite Zoologische Abteilung (Entom%gie), Burgring 7, A-lOW Wien, e-mail: [email protected]. (" .... ) Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante sezione di Entomologia agraria, Universitii degli Stud; di Sassari sede staccata di , via Martin Luther King 1, 1- 08100 Nuoro NU, e-mail: [email protected]. (*".... ) Abteilung fiir Medizinische Parasitologie, Klint:fChes lnstitut /iir Hygiene und Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Medizinische Universitiit Wien, Kinderspitalgasse 15, A -1095 Wien, e-mail: [email protected].

Pantaleoni R. A., Asp6ck D., Cao O. v., Aspock H. -Subilla principiae n. sp., a new spectacular snakefly from Sardinia (Raphidioptera Raphidiidae).

A new species of Raphidioptera Raphidiidae, Subilla principiae n. sp., found near (western Gennargentu, Sardinia, ) is described and illustrated. The habitat of the species seems to be white oak woods, particularly Saniculo-Quercetum pubescentis Camarda and Pignatti, 1998. The systematic position of the new species is rather isolated and it could be of Palaeo-Tyrrhenian origin. KEY WORDS: Neuropterida, Mediterranean, Italia, Gennargentu, white oak woods.

INTRODUCTION

Cymo-Sardinian white oak woods are found on the granite mountains of central Sardinia, particularly on the slopes of the Goceano and the northwestern side of the Gennargentu. These xerophilous, deciduous oak: woods, formally described as Saniculo-Quercetum pubescent;s Camarda and Pignatti, 1998, stand 900-1400 mt a.s.1., on level ground or not very steep slopes, where the mesodimate is oceanic with damp winds from the sea, heavy dew and frequent morning mist. The most inlportant plant species is Quercus pubescens Willd. and there are a great many lichens and epiphytes. The undergrowth is relatively humid (PIGNATTI, 1998). One of us (R.A.P.) had serendipitously hypothesized, the presence of an endemic species of Raphidioptera in these woods and when an investigation of the Lepidoptera of the Fig. 1-Subilla prindpiae n. sp. - adult female. [Paratype] Fonni woods (western Gennargentu) was begun in spring 2001, he asked the researchers parricularly to look out for these extremely characteristic insects. 2004 (SA04/16), H. Asp6ck leg. (in colI. H. & U. Asp6ck). Nevertheless, the finding (by O.v.e.) of the first female and Paratypes: all from the type locality in an area of about 3000 m2, immediately afterwards of the first male of a new species in an altitude of 1020-1060 m, collected by H. AspOck (2003, belonging to the genus Subilla, at the end of May 2001, came 2004), U. Asp6ck (200}, 2004), 0. V. Cao (2001, 2002), L. Lorn as a great surprise. The presence of the species in the locality (2003), and R A. Pantaleoni (2002, 2003): 1~ (21 May 2001), was confirmed in 2002. Two research trips carried out the two 1d' (25 May 2001), 1 ~ (25 May 2002), 1d' (28 may 2002), 1 ~ following springs (2003/2004) resulted in the collection of (1 Jtme 2002), 1d', 3~~ (22 May 2003), 1d', 2~~ (24 May other specimens and the discovery of preimaginal stages. 2003), 1cf, 8~~ (25 May 2003), 2d'd', 2~~ (30 May 2004), lei" (4 June 2004). Moreover, from larvae collected under bark of Quercus pubescens on 24 May 2003 2~~ were reared which Subilla principiae n. sp. hatched on 5 May 2004, and 3 d'd' reared from eggs laid by one of the females collected on 25 May 2003 hatched on 20-21 April DERIVATIO NOMINIS - The name of this very remarkable new 2005. Paratypes in colI Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (lei", species is a grateful homage to the neuropterologist Maria 1 ~); H. & D. AspOck, Wien Od'd', 11~~); H. & R Rausch, Matilde Principi, emeritus professor at the University of Scheibbs (1cf, 1~); R A. Pantaleoni, Sassari (2d'd', 6~~); Bologna, respectfully admired by all of us, on the occasion of Universita degli Studi di Sassari sede staccata di Nuoro (1 ~). her 90th birthday. DESCRIPTION - A delicate, rather dark species (fig. I), length MATERIAL STUDIED - Holotype: cf, Italia, Sardinia, of forewing of the d' 8,2-9,2 mm, of the ~ 8,5-10,5 mm. Gennargentu, Fonni, 4005,81'N 1 9°15,5'E, 1050 m asl, 4 June Head flat, somewhat notched at the level of the basal ocelli,

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ECOLO(;Y AND BIOLOGY

Subilld /,l'lI:ci/,it/(' is markedh' associated with Quel'CII.I pUbe\(I'11S and possibh l'ont"illcd to this oak species ill Sam':lI!o·QlitTCf'filill /,uhnH·;;tis. /\ll11oS1 all adults were swept from 10\\" \"('getalion lInder Q, a few specimens (but also a larva) \\'cr, obtained by fogging or beating Q. /,lIh"\'('('JII <:aI10p\, Sew'ral hll'\'ae 'Illd pupae were found und,r b'lrk of 011. S. principiae"Tl<1s so iar benl found <"elusively near Fonni, Talesso, within an area of ca. 3000 m 2 (fig, TV). The surroundings of the locus typicus are similarly structured and Fig. II - Subilla principiae n. sp, - fot'ewing (distal two thirds), [Female paratype] one may assume that the spedes occurs all over the white oak woods around Fonni and probably also in orlwr p;lrtS of the W-Gennargentu, although our particular efforts to find the spe<:ies in other Saf1iculo-Quercetum pubescC!i!il SLlliollS have d' genital segments (fig. IT [, 1-) with stern ire of segmenr been llIlsllccessful so 1',11'. Tt is very likely th

ACKNOWLEDGE,,\! E0JTS DIFI'ERE0J'I'lATION "l11e 1\\'0 research trips carried out in Sardinia in 2003 and in From the hitherto described 9 species of the genus - SlIhi/!a Sardini,l and Corsica in 2004 \vould not hllve been possible but (Stephens, 18')6), S" alie,,{/ (Na\'.is. 1(15). S" artt'lJli, for I he helpfulness and extraordinary patience of II great (T 1. Aspt'lck & U. Aspock, 1971), S "\ylidiopbita (H. Aspock & number of people, who gave us their enthusiastic support and U" Asp6ck. 197-11. S. 1I',1IIcl'i (H. Asp()ck &. U. Aspock, 1967), friendship. Although we are afraid some might he left out. \I'e S /dt!J/d (H. Asp()ck & U. Aspi:ick & Rausch, 1979), can do no less than mention the rol!o\\'ing: Dr. Laura LOn!, II ('o!o.\\"('tI ([ 1. Asp()ck &. U. Aspikk &. Rausch. 1979), who with her usual mlthorir\' alld (,(lurtes\' llh!llaged most of S, priapl'lltl I!. Asp(lck & U. Asp(ick &. Rausch. 1982 and the logistics and none of us could have done ollr work without S. ph'lot/I's (Nanis. 1(14) - foul' (S, fill!!!{/, S. c%sst'''. her support: Professor Piero ( :orda of the University of Sassari, S. priapd/a. S. /,brsodc,') ha\'c, what is called, monstrous m.tIc who as presidcnt of the Ente Foreste della Regione Sardegna genila! segments CH, A:;P()(K ,./ Ill. 1991, [L AsP()(K ,./ ai., provided us with the services of some of his formidable 200 I). This lllonSITosirv concerns predominantly the ventral colbborator;;. Di<>lIigi Secci, i\.lichele Pin'ddlL Alessio parts of the male gonocoxites IX, \\'hich are enlarged and Sussare!lu 'lIld othel<: Dr. Q,miele Sechi. of the Serl'izio directed ventrally (the plesiomorphic condition is «directed Fitop'Hnlogico Regionalc-, who was our guide in the somh of caudally»!. The enlarged gonocoxites IX of S. principiae Sardinia; Cesario Giolta, of the Corpo Forest'lle e di Vigilanza Anno 2004 SUBILLA PRINCIPIAE N. SP., A NEW SPECTACULAR SNAKEFLY FROM SARDINIA ... 5

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FIg. m -Suhilla principiae n. sp. - d' genital segments [Holotype1: 1l1ateral view; 2) ventral view; 3) hypandrium intemum and parameres.

Fig. N - Locus typicus of Sumlla principiae n. sp.: Fonni, Talesso. 1050 mt a.s.!. 6 RA. PANTALEONI - U. ASPOCK - O.v. CAD - H. ASP()CK REDIA, Vol. LXXXVII

Ambientale, , our guide on the Supramonte of , occidentale, Sardegna, Italia) e descritta ed illustrata. La and Franco Anedda of the Gonnosfanadiga Municipal specie sembra legata ai boschi di roverella ed in particolare a Administration who accompanied us on Mount Linas; our Sal1iculo-Quercetum pubescentis Camarda and Pignatti, 1998. friends Giampietro Vacca (Belvl), Sandro Marchi (Villaverde), La posizione sistematica della nuova specie e piuttosto isolata Leonardo Sulas (), Gianfranco Garippa (Fonni) and ed e possibile che essa sia di origine paleotirrenica. the Sassu family (Bonarcado), whom we had the good fortune to stay with in various circumstances and at different times. Another warm word of thanks goes to Michele Loi, an REFERENCES energetic technical assistant of the University of Sassari and an outstanding driver. Cordial thanks to Mrs Fra.nziska Anderle, ASPOCK H., ASPOCK U., RAUSCH H., 1991 - Die University of Vienna, for her careful graphical assistance. Rapbidiopteren del' Erde. Eine monograpbiscbe Darstellung Finally, last but .not least, the University of Sassari and the der Systematik, Taxonomie, Biologie, Okologie ul1d Institute for the Study of Ecosystems of the CNR (National Chorologie der rezenten Raphidiopteren del' Erde, mit cineI' Research Council) for its financial and logistic support. zusammcl1fasscndcn Obcrsicbt del' fOHilen Rapbidioptcren (Insccta: Ncuropteroidea). Goecke & Evers, Krefeld, Vol. I: 730 pp., Vol. II: 550 pp. RIASSUNTO ASPOCK H., HOLZEL H., ASPOCK U., 2001 - Kommentierter Katalog der Neuropterida (Insecta: Raphidioptera, SUBILLA PRINCIPIAE N. SF, UNA NUOVA Megaloptera, Neuroptera) der Westpiialarktis. Denisia 2: 1- STRAORDINARIA SPECIE DI RAPHIDIIDAE 606. (RAPHIDIOPTERA) DELLA SARDEGNA PIGNATTI S., 1998 - I boscbi d'Italia sinecologia e biodiversitd. UTET, Torino, XVI+677 pp. Una nuova specie di Raphidioptera Raphidiidae, Subtlla pril1cipiae n. sp., rinvenuta presso Fonni (Gennargentu

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Reference Citation: Pantaleoni, R. A.; Aspöck, U.; Cao, O. V.; Aspöck, H. 2004 [2004.??.??]. Subilla principiae n. sp., a new spectacular snakefly from Sardinia (Raphidioptera Raphidiidae). Redia 87:3-6.

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