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Genus Scotoleon

cream-lined antlion - Scotoleon Antlion -? - Scotoleon carrizonus - male Myrmeleontidae - Scotoleon yavapai - female Papago Antlion - Scotoleon Brachynemurini - Scotoleon Grassland insect - Scotoleon nigrilabris Brachynemurini? - Scotoleon expansus Female, Scotoleon nigrescens? - Scotoleon
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Neuroptera (Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies)
Suborder Myrmeleontiformia (Antlions and Allies)
Family Myrmeleontidae (Antlions & Owlflies)
Subfamily Myrmeleontinae (Giant, Long-tailed, and Pit-trapping Antlions)
Tribe Brachynemurini (Long-tailed Antlions)
Genus Scotoleon
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
species formerly treated as a part of Brachynemurus(1)
Explanation of Names
Scotoleon Banks 1913
Greek σκότος scótos ('dark') + λέων léōn ('lion')
Numbers
20 spp. in our area(2); 23 total (NA's largest antlion genus)
1. Scotoleon carrizonus: AZ, CA, NM, NV, OK, TX, UT
2. Scotoleon deflexus: CA, NM
4. Scotoleon expansus: AZ, CA, NM, TX
5. Scotoleon fidelitas: AZ, CA
6. Scotoleon infuscatus: CA
7. Scotoleon intermedius: AZ, CA, NV, UT
8. Scotoleon longipalpis: AZ, CA, NM, NV, TX
10. Scotoleon minusculus: AZ, CA, KS, NE, NM, OK, TX, UT
11. Scotoleon minutus: AZ, CA, NV
12. Scotoleon niger: AZ, CA, NV
14. Scotoleon nigrilabris: AZ, CA, CO, ID, KS, MN, MT, NE, NM, NV, SD, TX, UT, WY
15. Scotoleon nivatensis: AZ, CA, ID, NV, OR
16. Scotoleon pallidus: AZ, CA, NM, NV, TX
17. Scotoleon peregrinus: BC; AZ, CA, CO, NE, NM, NV, UT, WY
18. Scotoleon quadripunctatus: AZ, CA, NV
19. Scotoleon singularis: AZ, CA, NV, NM, UT
20. Scotoleon yavapai: AZ, CA, NV, UT
Range
NA; in our area, w.US (esp. sw.), with 3 spp. ranging to SD‒MN and one into BC(2)
Food
Adults of one species reported to take nectar from Gaura flowers in TX(1)
Works Cited
1.Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America
Eric Eaton, Kenn Kaufman. 2006. Houghton Mifflin.
2.Species catalog of the Neuroptera, Megaloptera, and Raphidioptera of America North of Mexico
Penny N.D., Adams P.A., Stange L.A. 1997. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 50: 39‒114.