Vella (insect)

Vella
Vella americana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Neuroptera
Family:	Myrmeleontidae
Subfamily:	Myrmeleontinae
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]

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]

Gallery

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  V. americana in Florida.
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  V. eggerti in the Dominican Republic.
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  V. fallax fallax collected in Nicaragua.
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  V. fallax texana in Arizona.

References

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

Further reading

• Stange, Lionel A. (2010). "Preliminary report on the Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera) of Paraguay". Insecta Mundi (0114): 1–14. 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". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series. 50: 39–114.

External links

• Media related to Vella (Myrmeleontidae) at Wikimedia Commons