Badano, Davide;Pantaleoni, Roberto Antonio
Neuroleon
Sign in to save244px|right|thumb|Neuroleon sansibaricus type specimen from the [[Bavarian State Collection of Zoology]]
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderNeuroptera
- FamilyMyrmeleontidae
Observations319
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 75
- Family
- Myrmeleontidae
- Collections
- USNM, TAMU
- Recorded in
- Israel, South Africa, Spain
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244px|right|thumb|Neuroleon sansibaricus type specimen from the [[Bavarian State Collection of Zoology]]
Neuroleon is a large and complex genus of antlions in the subfamily Myrmeleontinae. There are more than 150 described species from Europe, Asia and Africa, and there are many undescribed taxa. Where the biology of the larvae is known, they live freely in sand or in sheltered rock crevices.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Neuroleon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.