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Ant-Lion

Palparus pardus

Description:

A beautiful insect, located in the grass and flying like a grasshopper, not like a dragonfly although the body is a bit similar. Length about 50mm (body). It's an Ant-Lion adult, part of the order Neuroptera and more specifially of the Family Myrmeleontidae. More than 2000 species world wide.

Habitat:

Forest

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10 Comments

JoeHartman
JoeHartman 10 years ago

Thanks!
By accident I found it. Someone ID'ed the Owl Fly for me and I checked at the Checklist of Indian Neuropera. It's a checklist, no photos, except one: the Ant Lion I was looking for in my mind. So I found two Neuropera today and that makes me happy, as it is a unknown group of insects, but some specimen are beautiful!

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 10 years ago

Fantastic ! from scary nymphal form to such elegant beauty !!

ForestDragon
ForestDragon 10 years ago

Joe, that's great! It's nice to have a full ID for such a lovely creature!

JoeHartman
JoeHartman 10 years ago

Today I found the ID on the Checklist of Indian Neuroptera :)

JoeHartman
JoeHartman 10 years ago

Thanks Ingrid. I was surprised too and did not realize it is an Antlion...

Ingrid3
Ingrid3 10 years ago

fantastic!
I did not know antlions were so colorful.

JoeHartman
JoeHartman 10 years ago

Thank you Gilma

Nice finding, thank you for sharing, very beautiful creature.

JoeHartman
JoeHartman 10 years ago

Thanks ForestDragon, I also got on track with the ant lions. Probably I won't find the right species, as there are many of them. But at least I can edit this spotting into ant lion. Thanks again.

ForestDragon
ForestDragon 10 years ago

Hi Joe! This beautiful insect looks like an adult Antlion. I am not sure of the species in your area but this should give you a place to start looking.

JoeHartman
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JoeHartman

จังหวัดอุดรธานี, Thailand

Spotted on Oct 17, 2013
Submitted on Oct 17, 2013

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