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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings and Allies (Neuroptera) » Antlions (Myrmeleontidae) » Vella » Vella fallax
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Giant Ant Lion - Vella fallax
Copyright © 2006 Jim McClarin

Giant Ant Lion - Vella fallax
Organ Mountains foothills, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, USA
August 9, 2006
Size: about 64 mm!!
In hopes Neuroptera specialist John D. Oswald will be able to put a species name on this one, I've produced a couple blowups.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 20 August, 2006 - 11:52am
Last updated 21 August, 2006 - 2:59pm

Moved
Moved from Vella.
… Jim McClarin, 21 August, 2006 - 2:59pm login or register to post comments

#71804 Identification -- Vella fallax
This is the antlion Vella fallax (Rambur, 1842), one of our largest North American species of this family.
… John D. Oswald, 21 August, 2006 - 8:19am login or register to post comments

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