Vella (insect)

Genus of insects

Vella

Vella americana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Neuroptera
Family:  | Myrmeleontidae
Subfamily:  | Myrmeleontinae
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]

## Species

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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

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* V. americana in Florida.

* V. eggerti in the Dominican Republic.

* V. fallax fallax collected in Nicaragua.

* V. fallax texana in Arizona.

## References

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1. ^ a b "Vella Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
2. ^ a b "Browse Vella". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
3. ^ a b "Vella". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
4. ^ a b "Vella Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-25.

## Further reading

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* Stange, Lionel A. (2010). "Preliminary report on the Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera) of Paraguay". Insecta Mundi (0114): 1–14\. ISSN 1942-1354.
* 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.

## External links

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* Media related to Vella (Myrmeleontidae) at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Vella|

* Wikidata: Q10713827
* BioLib: 1121268
* BugGuide: 71448
* CoL: 92Q8N
* EoL: 52629
* GBIF: 2101333
* iNaturalist: 252922
* Insecta.pro: 960776
* IRMNG: 1094106
* ITIS: 666176
* NCBI: 2028938

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