The larvae of Gepus invisus Navás, 1912 and Solter liber Navás, 1912, a comparative description (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)
Author
Badano, Davide
Author
Acevedo, Fernando
Author
Monserrat, Víctor J.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3785
1
87
94
journal article
36874
10.11646/zootaxa.3785.1.7
c96b541b-eb52-49ab-909a-30dff52bacd1
1175-5326
285833
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Gepus
Navás, 1912
Diagnosis.
Head capsule with small but prominent ocular tubercles; anterior margin of the clypeo-labrum concave; head covered with dolichasters; mandibles robust, armed with 3 teeth; the median tooth is the largest and closer to the apical tooth than to the basal tooth; robust setae are present between teeth; external margin of the mandibles covered with short setae; labial palpi four-segmented, segments 2-4 longer than the width of the mandible; pronotum covered with short dolichasters; spiracles sessile; thorax equipped with sub-pedunculated setiferous processes; metathoracic legs with a fringe of setae; VIII abdominal sternite with atrophied odontoid processes; IX abdominal sternite equipped with small rastra each bearing four thin digging setae, of which the internal pairs are shorter than the others.