Austroleon immitus (Walker)

Stange, Lionel A. & uary, Jan, 2010, Preliminary report on the Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera) of Paraguay, Insecta Mundi 2010 (114), pp. 1-14 : 8

13. Austroleon immitus (Walker)

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Myrmeleon immitus Walker 1853: 331 . Lectotype female, Santarem , Brazil (“a” of Walker) (BMNH).

= Formicaleo ephemerinus Gerstaecker 1893: 134 (after Stange 2004: 231). Holotype male, São Paulo, Brazil (Griefswald).

= Austroleon compar Banks 1909: 3 (after Stange 1967: 52). Lectotype male, Pedregal, Mendoza, Argentina, XII.17.1906, Jensen Haarup (MCZC), designated by Stange 1961: 671.

= Moza nubilis Navás 1912: 35 , figure 1 (wings) (after Stange 1967: 52). Holotype, Mendoza, Argentina (?Copenhagen).

= Correa expansus Navás 1914: 218 , figure 6 (fore wing) (after Stange 1967:52). Syntype male, Amazon, 1860 Stevens (NHMW!); Syntype female, Solidade, 1903 Exped. Penther ( NHMW) .

= Guipa columbiana Navás 1927:4 , figure 45 (base fore wing) (after Stange 2004: 231). Holotype female: Villavicencio, Colombia, 1925, F. Apollinaris Maria (not located).

= Austroleon stictogaster stigmata Navás 1929:221, figure 17 (apex fore wing) (after Stange 1967:51). Lectotype male, La Granja, Alta Gracia, Córdoba, 15.II.1927, Bruch (MACN), designated by Stange 1967:52.

Known distribution. Argentina; Brazil;? Colombia; Uruguay; Venezuela.

Diagnosis. Adult: Frons without setae; tibial spurs present; mid femoral sensory hair much shorter than tarsus and that of fore femur; pilula axillaris well developed; posterior area of hind wing for most of distance much lower than length of fringe setae on posterior vein (Figure 8); male ectoproct without postventral lobe. Larva: unknown.