Froggattisca
Sign in to saveFroggattisca is a genus of cave-dwelling antlions, that is, the genus belongs to the family Myrmeleontidae.
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- Parent taxon
- Myrmeleontidae
- Named after
- Walter Wilson Froggatt
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- Froggattisca
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- Froggattisca
- taxon author citation
- Esben-Petersen, 1915
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Froggattisca is a genus of cave-dwelling antlions, that is, the genus belongs to the family Myrmeleontidae.
The genus was first described by Peter Esben-Petersen in 1915. The genus name honours W.W. Froggatt who, in 1900 at Colo Vale, NSW, collected the female specimen described by Esben-Petersen as Froggattisca pulchella.
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