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Family Myrmeleontidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Common Brown Antlions that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 40mm
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- The
adults are brown in colour with slender body , grey eyes. Antennae are black,
short and slight clubbed at the tip. Clean wings with brown venation and white pterostigma.
Legs are yellowish brown.
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- Pictures taken
near Bulimba Creek in Wishart during late summer. Although it has two pair of
membranous wings like the dragonfly, the Antlion adults flied slowly and short
distance.
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Sand traps, diameters 40mm
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- Their larvae are true Antlions, build sand traps on ground.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 541.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus &
Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p323.
- 3. Wildlife
of greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum, p100.
- 4. A
revision of the Australian Myrmeleontidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). I.
New, T.R. (1985) Introduction, Myrmeleontini, Protoplectrini. Aust. J.
Zool. Suppl. 104: 1-90
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