Aim Geographic variation in body size and heterozygosity were surveyed for discrete populations of the ant lion, Myrmeleon immaculatus DeGeer, collected from the central and northeastern United States. Location Collection sites were located in the central and eastern United States ranging from western Oklahoma to northern New York. Methods We collected 872 M. immaculatus larvae from thirty-four...

Antlion larvae that construct conical pits to capture prey may strongly affect foraging of ants and other arthropods, yet are usually abundant only in sheltered microhabitats. Larval antlion (Myrmeleon crudelisWalker) densities increased in exposed areas in central Texas in late summer and early autumnof 1998, presumably because of extended dry conditions. I conducted a study to quantify larval...

1st instar larvae of myrmecaeurus trigrammus (pallas, 1771) collected in behesht mustapha marivan reared in laboratory condition , larvae fed with ants.the molting time, onset of diapause, carefully recorded .characteristics of 3rd instar larva, and the morphological details of larva, and imago ,described and figures drawn.

Qing-He Zhang*, Guiji Zhou, Doreen R. Hoover, Neil J. Michaelson, Paul Bryant, Armenak Margaryan, Kamlesh R. Chauhan, Jeffrey R. Aldrich and Rodney G. Schneidmiller 1 Sterling International Inc., Spokane, WA, USA 2 Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD, USA 3 Jeffrey R. Aldrich Consulting, LLC, S...

The Solter species of the Maghrebian and sub-Saharan West African Regions are revised. Nine species are recorded, S. bouyeri nov. sp., S. dogon nov. sp., S. francoisi nov. sp., S. leopardalis nov. sp., S. liber Navás, S. lucretii nov. sp., S. naevipennis Navás, S. neglectus Navás stat. rev. and S. rothschildi Navás. A lectotype is designated for the last species. A tenth species, S. ardens (Nav...