Dendroleon pantherinus

Species of insect

Dendroleon pantherinus

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Neuroptera
Family:  | Myrmeleontidae
Genus:  | Dendroleon
Species:  |

D. pantherinus

Binomial name
Dendroleon pantherinus

(Fabricius, 1787)

Dendroleon pantherinus is a species of neuropteran insects of the antlion (Myrmeleontidae) family. Larvae are unique among antlions, as they do not create sandy pits, but rather develop in hidden shelters such as hollow trees. [1]

Drawing of a larva by Friedrich Moritz Brauer (1867).

## Taxonomy

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The species has been described in 1787 by the Danish entomologist Johan Christian Fabricius, with the original combination Myrmeleon pantherinum. The genus Dendroleon is created by Friedrich Moritz Brauer in 1866, with D. pantherinus as type species.

## References

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1. ^ Kuras, Tomáš; Mazalová, Monika (1 September 2018). "Distribution of the antlion (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) in the Czech Republic". Acta Musei Silesiae, Scientiae Naturales (in Polish). 67 (1): 1–6\. doi:10.2478/cszma-2018-0001.

Taxon identifiers

Dendroleon pantherinus|

* Wikidata: Q848851
* ADW: Dendroleon_pantherinus
* BioLib: 61169
* BOLD: 775171
* CoL: 34QD6
* EUNIS: 91750
* Fauna Europaea: 85566
* Fauna Europaea (new): c56d6329-1f3d-4ff7-b2ae-d8f0c5df2f91
* GBIF: 2101384
* iNaturalist: 555021
* ITIS: 981674
* NCBI: 1593346
* Observation.org: 195061
* Open Tree of Life: 3017514

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