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Antlion

family: Myrmeleonyidae

Photo by Liana
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Field Notes

Description:

Again, images have been cropped - otherwise you would be seeing my hand :) But you can see the whole insect if you look at it! Long insect - approx 3 inches (about 7.5cm) long. Transparent wings. Body looks like a dragonfly or damselfly.

Habitat:

Found on the clothesline wire at home. All I saw was an anomaly with the clothesline wire and this is what it was!

Notes:

Thank you Mark for helping me with narrowing it down to the family!

Reference: http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:39…

Further reference: http://anic.ento.csiro.au/insectfamilies/biota_details.aspx?OrderID=253…

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (9)
Liana
Oh cool. Thanks Mark. I wasn't sure if I could do that...thought it had to be the proper name!
Mark Ridgway
I think you should just put "family: Myrmeleonyidae" in the scientific name. I can see many other genus which look similar to yours. http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:399eeb2b-a255-4a29-86a5-d9ef016c0b9a#tab_gallery
Liana
ha ha Same here Mark. I am actually clueless when it comes to the scientific language: orders, family, etc......and applying it to the natural world. Field guides and google help with anything sciencey :D I have only just (kind of) worked out this whole subspecies thing ha ha I will keep looking around...then I might be able to work out what to put in the "scientific name" box! Thank you for your help hey!!!
Mark Ridgway
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Glenoleon+meteoricus#tab_gallery http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations/13087
Mark Ridgway
Too deep for me. I believe I can see differences in the wings which might imply at least different species, probably genus.. then there's variability and dimorphism to consider. Atlas of Living Australia is very useful for a quick sanity check. You can check the known range of a species, the number of reasonable alternatives, the images taken so far etc. at all taxo levels. If that doesn't help then there's some real (although patchy) expertise in Bowerbird. In my little experience with these beasties there are many which look very similar so I usually am more than happy to get to genus.
Liana
Cool! Another question...after looking at this image: http://anic.ento.csiro.au/insectfamilies/image_details.aspx?OrderID=25378&BiotaID=42889&ImageID=2819&PageID=families I'm wondering if this is the species or is it at least a Glenoleon sp???
Liana
Would I be on the right track if I said this was an Antlion (Myrmeleontidae family)???

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