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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies (Neuroptera) » Antlions and Allies (Myrmeleontiformia) » Antlions & Owlflies (Myrmeleontidae) » Giant, Long-tailed, and Pit-trapping Antlions (Myrmeleontinae) » Long-tailed Antlions (Brachynemurini) » Mexoleon » Mexoleon papago
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ID for Antlion in California? - Mexoleon papago
Copyright © 2008 Harsi S. Parker

ID for Antlion in California? - Mexoleon papago
Webb Canyon, ~2000 ft. altitude, Los Angeles County, California, USA
July 18, 2008
Just going through some photos from last summer and was hoping someone might be able to give me more info on this antlion which I rescued from my living room. Thanks for any help you can provide! (BTW, if it looks like there is some fuzzy stuff on the tip of its abdomen, don't worry it's not fungus -- just accumulated dust from behind our TV where it had been hanging out.)

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ID for Antlion in California? - Mexoleon papago ID for Antlion in California? - Mexoleon papago ID for Antlion in California? - Mexoleon papago
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Contributed by Harsi S. Parker on 22 October, 2008 - 12:39am
Last updated 22 May, 2010 - 9:42pm

awesome, folks -- thanx Harsita & John for another genus
Moved from Antlions.
… v belov, 22 May, 2010 - 9:08pm login or register to post comments

 
John, you have my thanks as well!
I really appreciate getting an ID on this one -- thanks for taking the time to assign an ID.

(Thanks, =v=, for making a new page for me. I just added another image showing a few shots of the head in greater detail. Hopefully, they will prove useful for others...)
… Harsi S. Parker, 22 May, 2010 - 9:41pm login or register to post comments

 
they sure will -- thanks, cara
… v belov, 22 May, 2010 - 9:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Harsi, I miss you and your exotica!
You made California's contributions a lot more fun and interesting!
… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 30 July, 2015 - 2:11pm login or register to post comments

#235421 Identification – Mexoleon papago
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… John D. Oswald, 22 May, 2010 - 8:18pm login or register to post comments

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