Ascalaphus dicax Walker 1853

Ascalaphus dicax Walker, 1853 Ascalaphus dicax Walker, 1853: 423. Type locality: India (northern). Ascalaphus immotus Walker, 1853: 425. Type locality: China. Ascalaphus insimulans Walker, 1853: 429. Type locality: India (northern). Ascalaphus odiosus Walker, 1853: 426. Type locality: India (northern Bengal). Ascalaphus cervinus Hagen, 1858a: 481. Type locality: Sri Lanka [Ceylon]. Indian distribution: Assam: Dhubri Dist.: Jamduar (village); Himachal Pradesh: Solan Dist.: Solan (city); Karnataka: [no further locality]; Maharashtra: Mumbai Suburban Dist.: Bandra (suburb); Meghalaya: South Garo Hills Dist.: Rongra (village); Sibbari [Shibbari] (village); West Garo Hills Dist.: Bangkapara [Barangapsca] (village); Rongsakgre [Rongsakgiri] (village); Odisha [Orissa]: Bhadrak Dist.: Baligaon (locale); Dhenkanal Dist.: Gudianali [Gadianali] (locale); Tamil Nadu: Dindigul Dist.: Senbahanoor [Shembaganur] (locale); Madurai Dist.: Madurai [Maduré] (city); Uttarakhand: Nainital Dist.: Nainital (town); West Bengal: Darjeeling Dist.: Rajbari (village); Kolkata Dist.: Kolkata [Calcutta] (city), Chowringhee (locale); Eden Gardens (locale); Nadia Dist.: Bethuadahari [Bethuaduari] Reserve Forest (reserve); Paschim Medinipur Dist.: Kharagpur (city) (van der Weele 1909c: 180; Navás 1930a: 33; Navás 1931b: 76; Sala de Castellarnau 1946: 120; Ghosh 1977a: 37; Ghosh & Sen 1977: 324; Ghosh 1983b: 298; Ghosh 1988: 187; Ghosh 1999: 146; Ghosh 2000a: 110; Ghosh 2000b: 108; Sharma & Chandra 2012: 485; Sharma & Chandra 2013: 164). World distribution: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Turkey, Yemen (Walker 1853: 423, 425; Hagen 1858a: 482; van der Weele 1909c: 179; Esben-Petersen 1913a: 230; Fraser 1922: 515; Fraser 1927: 258; Sziráki 1998: 59; H. Aspöck et al. 2001: 453; Whittington 2002: 377; Oswald 2024a).