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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) » Scotoleon

Genus Scotoleon

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
Brachynemurus sp. - Scotoleon longipalpis Papago Antlion - Scotoleon Scotoleon nigrilabris - male S nigrescens - Scotoleon carrizonus - male Female, Scotoleon nigrescens? - Scotoleon Long-tailed Antlion - Scotoleon - Scotoleon - male Female, Scotoleon? - Scotoleon longipalpis Male, Brachynemurini - Scotoleon - male
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 were formerly treated as a part of Brachynemurus.(1)
* One species is treated as Scotoleon eiseni in the Species Catalog(2) but as Brachynemurus eiseni in the newer Lacewing Digital Library.(3)
Explanation of Names
Scotoleon Banks 1913
Greek σκότος scótos ('dark') + λέων léōn ('lion')
Numbers
20 spp. in our area(4); 23 total (NA's largest antlion genus)
1. Scotoleon carrizonus: AZ, CA, NM, NV, OK, TX, UT
2. Scotoleon deflexus: CA, NM
3. Scotoleon dissimilis: AZ, TX
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
9. Scotoleon marshi: TX
10. Scotoleon minusculus: AZ, CA, KS, NE, NM, OK, TX, UT
11. Scotoleon minutus: AZ, CA, NV
12. Scotoleon niger: AZ, CA, NV
13. Scotoleon nigrescens: AZ, TX
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(4)
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.Neuropterida Species of the World catalogue (by J.D. Oswald)
3.Lacewing Digital Library
4.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.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 18 August, 2006 - 4:44pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov, Robert H. Biagi, PaleoJon
Last updated 8 July, 2024 - 6:04am

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