Libelloides macaronius

Appearance

Ascalaphus is a daytime predator inhabitating warm, dry, uncultivated meadows from Slovenia to Caucasus, and is famous due to the unique spectral sensitivity of its dorsofrontal eye that ranges only over the ultra-violet part of the solar spectrum. Ascalaphus lives as an adult imago only for approximately two months in the summer; even then, it is actively hunting only under unobscured skies.

Naming

Synonyms
Ascalaphus dubius Eversmann, 1850
Ascalaphus hungaricus Rambur, 1842
Ascalaphus intermedius Lefèbvre, 1842
Ascalaphus intermedius Ménétriés, [1848]
Ascalaphus kolywanensis (Laxmann, 1770)
Ascalaphus kolywanensis var. ponticus McLachlan, 1876
Ascalaphus longicornis var. dubius Eversmann, 1850
Ascalaphus macaronius (Scopoli, 1763)
Ascalaphus macaronius var. fumatus Navás, 1929
Ascalaphus macaronius var. kolywanensis (Laxmann, 1770)
Ascalaphus macaronius var. ponticus McLachlan, 1876
Ascalaphus macaronius var. pupillatus Rambur, 1842
Ascalaphus macaronius var. trimaculatus van der Weele, [1909]
Ascalaphus macaronius var. turcestanicus van der Weele, [1909]
Ascalaphus oculatus Brullé, 1832
Ascalaphus ponticus McLachlan, 1876
Ascalaphus pupillatus Rambur, 1842
Ascalaphus turcestanicus van der Weele, [1909]
Libelloides macaronius var. ponticus (McLachlan, 1876)
Libelloides macaronius var. pupillatus (Rambur, 1842)
Libelloides macaronius var. trimaculatus (van der Weele, [1909])
Libelloides macaronius var. turcestanicus (van der Weele, [1909])
Myrmeleon kolywanensis Laxmann, 1770
Myrmeleon macaronius (Scopoli, 1763)
Papilio macaronius Scopoli, 1763