Dendroleon Brauer 1866
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Agricultural Convergence Technology, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
- 2. Laboratory of Insect Phylogenetics and Evolution, Department of Plant Protection and Quarantine, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
Description
Genus
DendroleonBrauer, 1866Dendroleon Brauer, 1866: 42. Type species: Myrmeleon pantherinus Fabricius, 1787. Type locality: Austria.
Borbon Navás, 1914 b: 111.
Neglurus Navás, 1912 c: 171.
Pantherleon Yang, 1986: 431.
Diagnosis.
Adult. Medium to large sized antlions; antenna long; wing with brown markings; forewing presectoral area usually with four crossveins; forewing vein RP arising usually before CuA fork; forewing veins 2 A and 3 A separate, usually connected by one or two crossveins; hindwing presectoral area usually with one crossvein; hindwing vein RP arising before MP fork; male with pilula axillaris. Legs long and slender, hind femur plus tibia longer than entire length of head plus thorax; tibial spurs approximately as long as combined lengths of tarsomeres 1 and 2. Female gonapophyses divided into tubercular or short digitiform anterior and long digitiform posterior branch; a pair of gonapophyses with slender sclerotized setae (Sekimoto 2014; Zheng et al. 2024 a). Third instar larva. Mandibles upturned, with three pairs of equidistant teeth; mesothoracic and abdominal spiracles not prominent; thoracic setiferous processes pedunculated; abdominal sternite VIII without odontoid processes; abdominal sternite IX longer than wide, triangular; rastra and fossoria weakly developed (Zheng et al. 2024 a).
Distribution.
Asia (Azerbaijan, China, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Russian (Far East), Vietnam), Europe (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland, Romania, Russian Caucasus, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine), North America (Canada, Mexico, the United States), Oceania (Australia, Papua New Guinea) (Zheng et al. 2024 a).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Brauer
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Neuroptera
- Family
- Myrmeleontidae
- Genus
- Dendroleon
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dendroleon Brauer, 1866 sec. Kim, Ahn & Kim, 2025
References
- Brauer F (1866) Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatta Novara um die Erde, in den jahren 1857, 1858, 1859, unter den befehlen des Commodore B. von Wullerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. Neuroptera. K. Gerold, Wien, 104 pp.
- Fabricius JC (1787) Mantissa Insectorvm sistens eorvm species nvper detectas adjectis characteribvs genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibvs, observationibvs. Tome 1. Chr. G. Proft, Hafniae, 519 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11657
- Yang CK (1986) Thirty new species and four new genera of Neuroptera from Yunnan, and the family Nemopteridae new to China. Acta Agriculturae Universitatis Pekinensis 12 (4): 423-434.
- Sekimoto S (2014) Review of Japanese Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera). Insecta Matsumurana 70: 1–87.
- Zheng Y, Hayashi F, Matsumoto R, Liu X (2024 a) The antlions of the Dendroleon pupillaris group (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae, Dendroleontinae), with description of three new species from China. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 27 (1): 102181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aspen.2023.102181