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Family Myrmeleontidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Orange Antlions that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Orange Antlion - adult
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- The lacewing has
bright orange colour head and thorax, dark grey eyes, with board spotted wings.
Antennae are short and flagellum black, slight clubbed. Slender abdomen is
black and legs are orange and black.
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- Pictures taken in Alexandra Hill during early summer. So far we saw this lacewing only once.
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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, pp 541.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus &
Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p323.
- 3. Callistoleon erythrocephalus
- Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources
Study.
- 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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