Ululodes

ENGEL, MICHAEL S. & GRIMALDI, DAVID A., 2007, The Neuropterid Fauna of Dominican and Mexican Amber (Neuropterida: Megaloptera, Neuroptera), American Museum Novitates 3587, pp. 1-60 : 48

Ululodes larva: Grimaldi and Engel, 2005: 348,

fig. 9.24.

DESCRIPTION: Third instar?: As described for Ululodes sp. 1 except as follows: Body length (exclusive of mandibles) ca. 4 mm (difficult to ascertain as body is bent: fig. 50 ); head capsule length 0.9 mm; head capsule width 1.2 mm. Labral lobes bulbous but broader and less prominent than in Ululodes sp. 1 . Head and pronotum more densely covered by setae; those elongate setae on lateral margins of head distinctly more numerous and dense ( fig. 51 ). First tooth of mandible situated well beyond midpoint; first tooth slightly shorter than immediately following, central tooth, these each longer than distal tooth ( fig. 51 ). Dolichasters of mandible proximal to first tooth more numerous than in Ululodes sp. 1 (cf. figures 48 , 49 , and 51).

MATERIAL: Larva; MACT-3550 ( figs. 50 , 51 ), Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic.

COMMENTS: Refer to those comments provided for the larva of Ululodes sp. 1 .

Figures

Fig. 9. Photomicrograph of holotype of Dicromantispa moronei, new species (MACT-432).

Fig. 50. Photomicrograph of immature of Ululodes sp. 2 (MACT-3550).

Fig. 51. Details of head of Ululodes sp. 2 immature (MACT-3550).

Fig. 48. Habitus of immature of Ululodes sp. 1 (MACT-1200), with details of head enlarged.

Fig. 49. Details of head of Ululodes sp. 1 immature (DR-10-2010).