Ascalaphinae

Libelloides coccajus ♂

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Myrmeleontoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Neuropterida Ordo: Neuroptera Subordo: Myrmeleontiformia Superfamilia: Myrmeleontoidea

Familia: Myrmeleontidae
Subfamilia: Ascalaphinae
Tribus: Ascalaphini – Dimarini – Haplogleniini – Palparini – Stilbopterygini – Ululodini

incertae sedis: Pseudimares – Sodirus

Name

Ascalaphinae Rambur, 1842

Synonyms

• Schizophthalminae Weele, 1908

References

• Badano, D.; Pantaleoni, R.A. 2014: The larvae of European Ascalaphidae (Neuroptera). Zootaxa 3796(2): 287–319. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3796.2.4 Reference page. 
• Kuznetsova, V.G., Krivokhatsky, V.A. & Khabiev, G.A. 2015. Chromosome numbers in antlions (Myrmeleontidae) and owlflies (Ascalaphidae) (Insecta, Neuroptera). Zookeys 538: 47–61. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.538.6655 Full article Reference page. 
• Machado, R.J.P., Gilling, J.P., Winterton, S.L., Garzón-Orduña, I.J., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M. & Oswald, J.D. 2018 (print 2019). Owlflies are derived antlions: anchored phylogenomics supports a new phylogeny and classification of Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera). Systematic Entomology 44(2): 1–33. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12334 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Michel, B. & Mansell, M.W. 2018. A new genus and species of owl y from eastern and southern Africa (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 413: 1–12. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Rambur, J.P. 1842. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Névroptères. In Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret's Nouvelles Suites à Buffon, Paris. pp. 533. Online. Reference page. 
• Yang, M-X., Wang, X-L. & Sun, M-X. 2016. Two newly recorded genera and species of Owlflies (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae) from China. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7451. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7451. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Michel, B. & Mansell, M.W. 2018. A new genus and species of owl y from eastern and southern Africa (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 413: 1–12. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Pantaleoni, R.A. & Loru, L. 2018. Libelloidini, new name for an old tribe (Neuroptera Ascalaphidae). Zootaxa 4438(3): 597–598. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4438.3.11 Reference page. 

Links

• Zicha, Ondřej et al. Ascalaphinae – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
• Ascalaphinae – Taxon details on BugGuide.
• Ascalaphinae – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Ascalaphinae – Taxon details on Fauna Europaea.
• Ascalaphinae – Taxon details on Fossilworks.
• Ascalaphinae – Taxon details on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
• Ascalaphinae - Taxon details on iNaturalist.

• Ascalaphinae – Taxon details on Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG).
• Ascalaphinae – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Ascalaphinae – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Vernacular names

English: Owlflies
français: Ascalaphidés
日本語: ツノトンボ科
українська: Аскалафіди
閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú: Tn̂g-kak-lêng

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