Description of a new species of Protidricerus van der Weele, 1909 (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae, Ascalaphinae) from India

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Suryanarayanan, Thangalazhi Balakrishnan, Ábrahám, Levente, Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan, Palot, Muhamed Jafer (2025): Description of a new species of Protidricerus van der Weele, 1909 (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae, Ascalaphinae) from India. Zootaxa 5716 (3): 421-431, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5716.3.8, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.3.8AbstractA new species of the owlfly genus Protidricerus van der Weele, 1909, is described from Kerala, India. The new species, Protidricerus albocapitatus sp. nov., is compared to Protidricerus elwesii (McLachlan, 1891) from India and Protidricerus exilis (McLachlan, 1894) from China. The distribution and flight period of Protidricerus species from India are provided.