Myrmeleon lanceolatus Rambur, 1842

Letardi, Agostino, 2014, Note on some antlions from Mozambique (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1050-1050 : 1050

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scientific name

Myrmeleon lanceolatus Rambur, 1842
status

 

Myrmeleon lanceolatus Rambur, 1842

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: P. Cerretti, D. Birtele, A. Campanaro; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Mozambique; verbatimLocality: Matutuine, distr. Tinti Gala Lodge; verbatimLatitude: 26°38'44.3"S; verbatimLongitude: 32°50'25.1"E; Event: samplingProtocol: light trap; eventDate: 31.I.2008; Record Level: institutionCode: CNBFVR GoogleMaps

Distribution

According to Stange (2004), this species is distributed in Namibia and South Africa. There are several localities reported in online catalogues (in the Illustrated database of African Neuroptera , 16 localities are reported, mostly from South Africa and a very few from Namibia and Lesotho; four localities from western part of South Africa are reported in GBIF (2013); generically present also in Niger and Sierra Leone according to Oswald (2013); but the present male specimen is the first cited for Mozambique.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Neuroptera

Family

Myrmeleontidae

Genus

Myrmeleon