Myrmeleon lanceolatus Rambur, 1842

Letardi, Agostino, 2014, Note on some antlions from Mozambique (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1050-1050 : 1050

Myrmeleon lanceolatus Rambur, 1842

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: P. Cerretti, D. Birtele, A. Campanaro; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Mozambique; verbatimLocality: Matutuine, distr. Tinti Gala Lodge; verbatimLatitude: 26°38'44.3"S; verbatimLongitude: 32°50'25.1"E; Event: samplingProtocol: light trap; eventDate: 31.I.2008; Record Level: institutionCode: CNBFVR

Distribution

According to Stange (2004), this species is distributed in Namibia and South Africa. There are several localities reported in online catalogues (in the Illustrated database of African Neuroptera , 16 localities are reported, mostly from South Africa and a very few from Namibia and Lesotho; four localities from western part of South Africa are reported in GBIF (2013); generically present also in Niger and Sierra Leone according to Oswald (2013); but the present male specimen is the first cited for Mozambique.