Froggattisca anicis, New, 1985

Miller, Robert B. & Stange, Lionel A., 2012, The cave mouth antlions of Australia (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), Insecta Mundi 2012 (250), pp. 1-65 : 10-11

Froggattisca anicis New

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Froggattisca anicis New 1985b: 69 , figures 953-965 (wings; male, female terminalia; male genitalia). Holotype female, 1 km. north by northeast of Millstream HS, Western Australia, 16.IV.1971, Upton & Mitchell (ANIC).

Description. Adult: length of body 13 mm, forewing 17 mm, hindwing 18 mm. Coloration: antenna dark brown to black, apices of flagellomeres pale brown; labrum and clypeus slightly darkened; palpi pale; interantennal area broadly dark brown; vertex with anterior transverse brown bar linked medially with more extensive dark brown posterior markings; pronotum with broad dark brown median stripe and lateral dark brown stripe each side; wing venation mainly dark brown, some longitudinal veins intermittently pale brown, without golden brown suffusion; abdomen dark brown, some anterior tergites with slight median posterior yellow mark. Chaetotaxy: pronotum with long pale outstanding setae; femora with many elongate white setae; abdomen with mostly pale setae; female lateral gonapophysis with about eight short thickened setae; male genitalic membrane with short median setae. Structure: male without goitre; vertex raised; antennae widely spaced, flagellomeres broader than long; club slightly developed over last six flagellar segments; pronotum longer than wide; wings narrow, venation as in Figure 2; legs long and slender, tibia shorter than femur, tarsus longer than tibia, distal tarsomere longer than tarsomeres I and II together which are longer than tarsomere III which is longer than tarsomere IV; foreleg shorter than hindleg; tibial spurs slender, longer than one-half length of basal tarsomere; female terminalia with small lateral gonapophysis, posterior gonapophysis broad and rounded; anterior gonapophysis absent; pregenital plate not evident but there are ventral sinuous sclerotized bars in membrane below tergites VIII, IX; spermatheca strongly coiled; male genitalia with gonarcus very deep, parameres slender, rugose ventrally.

New record. AUSTRALIA. Western Australia: Wittenoom , 4. III. 1994, R. Miller (A76 reared) (5m, FSCA; USMB) .