Cueta, Navas, 1911

Badano, Davide & Pantaleoni, Roberto Antonio, 2014, The larvae of European Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera), Zootaxa 3762 (1), pp. 1-71 : 44

Key to the European larvae of Cueta

1 Ventral side of the head with a pair of dark elongated markings; VIII abdominal sternite provided with broad and robust digging setae of which the median pairs are coupled on a common protuberance; odontoid processes very small ( Figs. 2D , 23 )............................................................................................... C. lineosa

- Ventral side of the head unmarked; VIII abdominal sternite provided with thin and bristle-like digging setae, without median pairs of digging setae raised on a protuberance, odontoid processes large ( Figs. 2C , 22 )........................ C. beieri

Figures

FIGURE 2. IX and VIII abdominal sternite of 3rd instar larvae of Palparini, Myrmecaelurini, Nesoleontini and Acanthaclisini. A, Palpares libelluloides; B, Myrmecaelurus trigrammus; C, Cueta beieri; D, Cueta lineosa; E, Acanthaclisis occitanica; F, Synclisis baetica. Scale bar: 1 mm.

FIGURE 22. Cueta beieri Hölzel, 1969, 3rd instar larva (Greece: Rhodos, Kiotari). Dorsal (above), ventral (middle) and lateral (below) view; a–d: diagnostic characters, see species description.

FIGURE 23. Cueta lineosa (Rambur, 1842), 3rd instar larva (Greece: Rhodos, Tsambika). Dorsal (above), ventral (middle) and lateral (below) view; a–d: diagnostic characters, see species description.