Zootaxa 4858 (3): 394–404 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2020 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4858.3.5 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:02C62B66-2745-475F-858B-30639C0806F8 First description of immature stages of the antlion Bullanga florida (Navás, 1913) (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae, Dendroleontini) YUCHEN ZHENG1,2 & XINGYUE LIU1* 1Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China. 2 �
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[email protected]; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9168-0659 Abstract The larval stage of the Chinese endemic antlion Bullanga florida (Navás, 1913) is described for the first time with biological notes. The wide distribution of B. florida in southern China is discussed under the context of habitat selection of the larvae. Meanwhile, comparing the adults and larvae between B. florida and Dendroleon esbenpeterseni Miller & Stange, 1999, extensive morphological similarities suggest that these two species may belong to a same genus. Key words: Myrmeleontiformia, larval morphology, larval biology, Oriental region Introduction Dendroleontini Banks, 1899 is a widely distributed tribe of antlions in all zoogeographical regions, but is absent in the Neotropics, and most diverse in the Old World. According to the Myrmeleontidae traditional classification (Stange 2004), Dendroleontini is placed in the subfamily Myrmeleontinae, including 36 genera and 190 species. Recently, Machado et al. (2019) established a new classification of Myrmeleontidae based on phylogenomics using anchored hybrid enrichment (AHE) sequencing data, and Dendroleontini under the traditional classification as in Stange (2004) was raised to be a subfamily, i.e., Dendroleontinae, which is divided into two tribes (i.e., Acantho- plectrini and Dendroleontini).