Vella (insect)

Short description: Genus of insects

Vella

Vella americana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Neuroptera
Family:  | Myrmeleontidae
Subfamily:  | Acanthaclisinae
Tribe:  | Acanthaclisini
Genus:  | Vella
Navas, 1913

Vella is a genus of antlions in the family Myrmeleontidae. There are about five described species in Vella.[1][2][3][4]

## Contents

* 1 Species
* 2 Gallery
* 3 References
* 4 Further reading
* 5 External links

## Species

These five species belong to the genus Vella:

* Vella americana (Drury, 1773) i c g b
* Vella assimilis (Banks, 1908) i c g
* Vella eggerti Esben-Petersen, 1928 i c g
* Vella fallax (Rambur, 1842) i c g b
* Vella flaccida Navás, 1917 i c g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

## Gallery

* V. americana in Florida.

* V. eggerti in the Dominican Republic.

* V. fallax fallax collected in Nicaragua.

* V. fallax texana in Arizona.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Vella Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=666176. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Browse Vella". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/cbbb6690d50971624e32289d11b05833. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Vella". https://www.gbif.org/species/2101333. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Vella Genus Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/71448. Retrieved 2018-04-25.

## Further reading

* Stange, Lionel A. (2010). "Preliminary report on the Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera) of Paraguay". Insecta Mundi (0114): 1–14. ISSN 1942-1354. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/638/.
* Penny, Norman D.; Adans, Phillip A.; Stange, Lionel A. (1997). "Species catalog of the Neuroptera, Megaloptera and Raphidioptera of America north of Mexico". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series 50: 39–114. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/51792#/summary.

## External links

Wikidata ☰ Q10713827 entry

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