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Subfamily Ascalaphinae - Owlflies

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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

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 by Oswald & Jones, unpublished as of 9 Oct. 2022).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.

Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 9 October, 2022 - 2:56am

First United States record of Ascalobyas (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae), a range extension from northeastern Mexico to Texas

By R C Vogtsberger

Entomological News, Philadelphia 1990 101:158-160
First United States record of Ascalobyas (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae), a range extension from northeastern Mexico to Texas
R C Vogtsberger
Available at http://biostor.org/reference/66962.

Contributed by Cotinis on 4 December, 2017 - 5:36am

On the nomenclature of the genus name Ululodes (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae)

By Joshua R. Jones & John D. Oswald
Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 70(4): 285-290, 2013

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 9 October, 2022 - 2:07am

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Owlflies are derived antlions: anchored phylogenomics supports a new phylogeny and classification of Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera)

By Machado R.J.P., Gillung J.P., Winterton S.L., Garzón-Orduña I.J., Lemmon A.R., Lemmon E.M., Oswald J.D.
Sys. Entomol. 44: 418–450, 2018

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Contributed by v belov on 22 January, 2024 - 8:01pm

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A systematic catalog, bibliography, and classification of the world antlions (Insecta: Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)

By Lionel Alvin Stange
Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 74: [iv]+565 pp,, 2004

WorldCat link

Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 7 July, 2022 - 9:41pm

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Contributions toward a knowledge of the insect fauna of Lower California. No. 4. Neuroptera: Myrmeleonidae

By Nathan Banks
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series, 24(4): 133-151, 1942

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 9 November, 2021 - 3:39am

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The ant-lions of Florida. I. Genera (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)

By Lionel A. Stange
Entomology Circular No. 215, 1980

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 2 September, 2021 - 1:40am

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The ant-lions of Florida. II. Genera based on larvae (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)

By Lionel A. Stange
Entomology Circular No. 221, 1980

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Various notes about the biology of larvae are included.

Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 28 July, 2021 - 7:43am

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