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Issue: Vol. 3835 No. 3: 11 Jul. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-07-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3835.3.5
Page range: 364–370
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 3

The larva of Tricholeon relictus Hölzel & Monserrat, 2002 a synanthropic antlion (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae)

Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, C/Jose Antonio Novais, 2, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISE–CNR), Traversa la Crucca 3, Regione Baldinca, I–07100 Li Punti SS, Italy & Sezione di Entomologia e Patologia Vegetale, Dipartimento di Agraria, Università degli Studi, via Enrico De Nicola, I–07100 Sassari SS, Italy; presently at Istituto di Biologia Agroambientale e Forestale, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IBAF-CNR), Via Salaria km 29,3000, I-0015 Monterotondo Scalo RM, Italy & Centro Nazionale per lo Studio e la Conservazione della Biodiversità Forestale “Bosco Fontana", Strada Mantova 29, I-46045 Marmirolo (MN), Italy,
Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, C/Jose Antonio Novais, 2, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
larval morphology Neuropterida Myrmeleontiformia Mediterranean Iberian peninsula

Abstract

The larva of Tricholeon relictus, a Spanish endemic antlion of Afrotropical affinities, is described and illustrated for the first time also providing a comparison with the only other European member of the tribe Dendroleontini, Dendroleon pantherinus. The larva of this species is synanthropic but probably originally lived in cave-like habitats.