Stylascalaphus fabiani Meszaros & Abraham 2005

Stylascalaphus fabiani Mészáros & Ábrahám, 2005 Stylascalaphus fabiani Mészáros & Ábrahám, 2005: 103. Type locality: Pakistan (Islamabad). Diagnosis. Based on original description by Needham (1909) for Stylascalaphus obscurus and by Mészáros & Ábrahám (2005) for Stylascalaphus fabiani, the following combination of characters have been assigned for distinguishing these two morphologically similar species at the present time: a medium sized species with forewing length 28.0–29.0 mm; legs dark brown; pterostigma light ochreous, with three dark brown crossveins; abdominal terga dark brown with a median longitudinal yellow stripe, tergum 1 with long black setae. However, in S. obscurus the forewing length is about 23.0 mm; the legs are yellowish; the wings have a reddish pterostigma, with four crossveins; and the abdominal terga is brown, with tergum 1 covered with long white setae. Distribution. Pakistan (Islamabad Capital Territory: Gilgit-Baltistan Territory: District Gilgit, Bagroth Valley, Karakoram Mts., South Himalaya Mts.; Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province: District Mansehra, Kaghan Valley); Iran, Turkey (Adiyaman) (Mészáros & Ábrahám 2005; Dobosz & Ábrahám 2007; Oswald 2020).Published as part of Hassan, Muhammad Asghar & Liu, Xingyue, 2021, Taxonomic notes on owlflies from Pakistan (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae Ascalaphinae), pp. 401-452 in Zootaxa 4970 (3) on page 433, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4970.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/476654