Vella (genus)

Vella
Vella americana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Neuroptera
Family:Myrmeleontidae
Tribe:Acanthaclisini
Genus:Vella
Navas, 1913

Vella is a genus of antlions in the family Myrmeleontidae. There are about five described species in Vella.[1][2][3][4]

Vella americana

Species

These five species belong to the genus Vella:

  • Vella americana (Drury, 1773) i c g b
  • Vella assimilis (Banks, 1908) i c g
  • Vella eggerti Esben-Petersen, 1928 i c g
  • Vella fallax (Rambur, 1842) i c g b
  • Vella flaccida Navás, 1917 i c g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Vella Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  2. 1 2 "Browse Vella". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  3. 1 2 "Vella". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  4. 1 2 "Vella Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-25.

Further reading

  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
  • Elliott, John Malcolm (1996). British Freshwater Megaloptera and Neuroptera: a key with ecological notes. Freshwater Biological Association. ISBN 978-0900386565.
  • Hagen, Hermann August (1861). Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America with a list of the South American species. 4. Smithsonian institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.22092.
  • Miller, Robert B.; Stange, Lionel A. (2011). "Antlions of Hispaniola (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)". Insecta Mundi (0182): 1–28. ISSN 1942-1354.
  • Penny, Norman D.; Adans, Phillip A.; Stange, Lionel A. (1997). "Species catalog of the Neuroptera, Megaloptera and Raphidioptera of America north of Mexico". Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  • Stange, Lionel A. (2004). A systematic catalog, bibliography and classification of the world antlions (Insecta: Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 74. The American Entomological Institute. ISBN 1-887988-18-1.


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