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LacewingMAP:   10215
Province:   Central Province
Country:   Botswana
Locus:   2025AC
Observer:   du Plessis D
Date of record:   2017-04-12
Number of photos:   3
Notes:   Indoors
Last updated:   2020-12-03 13:24:43
Sp. code:   329880
Species name:   Syngenes sp.
Common name:  
Family:   Myrmeleontidae
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:   Myrmeleontidae
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=LacewingMAP-10215
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
VM-number: 10215 - photo: 1
VM-number: 10215 - photo: 2
VM-number: 10215 - photo: 3

Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Mervyn Mansell
Comment:   This is probably an undescribed species of Syngenes - currently under revision. They belong in the same tribe (Acanthaclisini) as the grey hirsute bark antlions. The large white larvae live in sand, often associated with rivers and, in one species S. longicornis, in coastal dune sand. The larvae are very active, but do not construct pits. Adults often form aggregations on the undersides of branches.
Date:   2017-04-23 18:23:34
Species name:   Syngenes sp.
Species code:   329880

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