The cave mouth antlions of Australia (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)
Author
Miller, Robert B.
Author
Stange, Lionel A.
text
Insecta Mundi
2012
2012-10-26
2012
250
1
65
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5174820
1942-1354
5174820
Froggattisca anicis
New
(
Figures 2, 3
)
Froggattisca anicis
New 1985b: 69
, figures 953-965 (wings; male, female terminalia; male genitalia).
Holotype
female
,
1 km
. north by northeast of
Millstream
HS
,
Western Australia
,
16.IV.1971
,
Upton
&
Mitchell
(ANIC).
Description. Adult:
length of body
13 mm
, forewing
17 mm
, hindwing
18 mm
.
Coloration
: antenna dark brown to black, apices of flagellomeres pale brown; labrum and clypeus slightly darkened; palpi pale; interantennal area broadly dark brown; vertex with anterior transverse brown bar linked medially with more extensive dark brown posterior markings; pronotum with broad dark brown median stripe and lateral dark brown stripe each side; wing venation mainly dark brown, some longitudinal veins intermittently pale brown, without golden brown suffusion; abdomen dark brown, some anterior tergites with slight median posterior yellow mark.
Chaetotaxy
: pronotum with long pale outstanding setae; femora with many elongate white setae; abdomen with mostly pale setae; female lateral gonapophysis with about eight short thickened setae; male genitalic membrane with short median setae.
Structure
: male without goitre; vertex raised; antennae widely spaced, flagellomeres broader than long; club slightly developed over last six flagellar segments; pronotum longer than wide; wings narrow, venation as in
Figure 2
; legs long and slender, tibia shorter than femur, tarsus longer than tibia, distal tarsomere longer than tarsomeres I and II together which are longer than tarsomere III which is longer than tarsomere IV; foreleg shorter than hindleg; tibial spurs slender, longer than one-half length of basal tarsomere; female terminalia with small lateral gonapophysis, posterior gonapophysis broad and rounded; anterior gonapophysis absent; pregenital plate not evident but there are ventral sinuous sclerotized bars in membrane below tergites VIII, IX; spermatheca strongly coiled; male genitalia with gonarcus very deep, parameres slender, rugose ventrally.
New record.
AUSTRALIA
.
Western Australia
:
Wittenoom
,
4. III. 1994
,
R
. Miller (A76
reared
) (
5m
,
FSCA
;
USMB
)
.