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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies (Neuroptera) » Antlions and Allies (Myrmeleontiformia) » Antlions & Owlflies (Myrmeleontidae) » Owlflies (Ascalaphinae)
The biosystematics of the Nearctic Ascalaphidae (Insecta: Neuropteroidea: Planipennia), with notes on biology and morphology
By David John Shetlar
Ph.D. dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1977
Cite: 2185858 with citation markup [cite:2185858]
FULL TEXT (website down as of 9 Oct. 2022)
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Some notes on synonymy are useful, but many points of identification diverge from more recent work (esp. by Oswald & Jones, unpublished as of 9 Oct. 2022). Several groups of species are incorrectly conflated: U. floridanus under U. bicolor in TX; U. mexicanus under U. arizonensis almost entirely, outside of a small population in s. AZ; and U. nigripes under U. macleayanus in TX. It is, however, worth noting that Shetlar's dissertation was previously among the most complete works on the genus.
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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 9 October, 2022 - 2:56am

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