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| Antlion ( Myrmeleon formicarius ) throwing the remains of its prey out of its pit. Filmed in the Netherlands.| Diese Mediendatei ist Teil der Stichting Natuurbeelden Sammlung , wovon eine Auswahl zur Verfügung gestellt wurde durch Open Beelden .| Willem Berents| | Datei:Mierenleeuw werpt prooiresten weg-5231776.webm
| Ameisenlöwe vermutlich Myrmeleon formicarius in Kirchwerder, Hamburg.| Eigenes Werk| Aiwok| [{Image src='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/images/slim/by-sa.png' alt='CC BY-SA 3.0' align='center' link='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/by-sa-30.html' target='_blank'}]| Datei:Myrmeleon formicaria 2.JPG
| Myrmeleon formicarius| Myrmeleon formicarius| Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium| [{Image src='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/images/slim/by-sa.png' alt='CC BY-SA 2.0' align='center' link='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/by-sa-20.html' target='_blank'}]| Datei:Myrmeleon formicarius (9564014813).jpg
| Myrmeleon formicarius| Myrmeleon formicarius| Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium| [{Image src='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/images/slim/by-sa.png' alt='CC BY-SA 2.0' align='center' link='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/by-sa-20.html' target='_blank'}]| Datei:Myrmeleon formicarius (9564018017).jpg
| Myrmeleon formicarius| Myrmeleon formicarius| Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium| [{Image src='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/images/slim/by-sa.png' alt='CC BY-SA 2.0' align='center' link='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/by-sa-20.html' target='_blank'}]| Datei:Myrmeleon formicarius (9566805090).jpg
| Mrówkolew pospolity| Eigenes Werk| Jerzy Strzelecki| [{Image src='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/images/slim/by-sa.png' alt='CC BY-SA 4.0' align='center' link='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/by-sa-40.html' target='_blank'}]| Datei:Myrmeleon formicarius 01(js) Lodz(Poland).jpg
| Myrmeleon formicarius. Found in Vakarbuļļi coast in Rīga town near Bolderaja, Latvia| Eigenes Werk| AfroBrazilian| [{Image src='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/images/slim/by-sa.png' alt='CC BY-SA 3.0' align='center' link='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/by-sa-30.html' target='_blank'}]| Datei:Myrmeleon formicarius 01.JPG
| Naturkundliche Sammlung Übermaxx Überseenuseum Bremen; Schmetterlinge und andere| Selbst fotografiert| Politikaner| [{Image src='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/images/slim/by-sa.png' alt='CC BY-SA 3.0' align='center' link='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/by-sa-30.html' target='_blank'}]| Datei:Naturkundliche Sammlung Übermaxx Überseemuseum Bremen 0374.JPG
| Title : The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy Identifier : animalkingdomarr00cuviuoft ( find matches ) Year : 1863 ( 1860s ) Authors : Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 ; Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 ; Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Subjects : Zoology Publisher : London H. G. Bohn Contributing Library : Gerstein - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor : MSN View Book Page : Book Viewer About This Book : Catalog Entry View All Images : All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ' Text Appearing After Image: 578 Div. 3. ARTICULATA.—INSECTA. Class 3. pit-fail, by crawling' backwards in a spiral direction and throwing- out the sand with its head, and at the bottom of which it stations itself, leaving: only its jaws exposed, its body being buried in the sand, and thus waiting patiently until an insect falls to the bottom of the pit, when it is instantly seized by the jaws and sucked to death ; if it endeavours to escape, the Ant Lion showers sand after it, which rarely fails to brin°; it to the bottom of the pit. The nutritive fluid thus obtained is never converted into excrement, the insect having: no orifice analog;oa3 to the anus. When full grown, and ready to assume the pupa state, it spins a perfectly round cocoon of a -silky matter, the exterior of which it covers with sand. Its spinnerets are placed at the extremity of the body. The perfect insect makes its appearance at the end of fifteen or twenty days, leaving the exuviae of the pupa in the opening- it has made in the cocoon. The common European species, M.formicarium, Linn, (which has not, however, been discovered in England), is about an inch long, with the wings transparent, with black veins dotted with white, and with dark spots, one of a whitish colour near the anterior extremity. (The species are very numerous). Ascalophus, Fab., has the antennae long, and suddenly terminated by a Fig. 109.- M. formicariuui. knob, with the abdomen oblong, oval, and scarcely longer than the thorax. The wings are shorter and broader than in Myrmeleon. Bonnet observed a larva near Geneva similar to that of Myrmeleon, but which neither crawled backwards nor formed a pit. The posterior extremity of its body was furnished with a bifid plate, truncated behind. This Iar\'a is probably that of Ascal. italicus, a south of Europe species, which begins to be found in France in the environs of Fontainebleau. (This is probably doubtful, the larva being more likely to be that of Myr. Libelluloides. See my Introd. to Mod. Class)/, of Insects, ii. p. 45, in which I have figured a larva of Ascalaphus, and subsequently Mr. Swainson has figured that of ^ac Macleayauus, from L. Guilding's drawings.) 3. The Hemerobii, Latr., similar to the preceding in the general form of the body and wings, but with filiform antennae and only four palpi. They form the genus Hemerobius, Linn.,— Some of which have the prothorax very small, the wings roof-like, the last joint of the palpi thickest, ovoid, and pointed. The larvae are terrestrial. Hemerobius proper, has the eyes globose and brilliantly metallic, the wings large and deflexed. They fly slowly, and many of them emit a disgusting scent. The females deposit their eggs upon leaves, to the number of ten or twelve, fixing each of them by a long and very slender footstalk. The larvae resemble those of Myrmeleon, but are more elongate, and are wanderers. They feed upon the plant-lice, which they seize with their mandibles, and suck their juices, destroying them very quickly. The pupa is inclosed in a cocoon of close silk, spun from the anus of the larva. Hemerobius (Chrysnpa, Leach,) Perla, Linn., is pale yellowish-green, with golden eyes, transparent wings, and green nerves. (A common species in this country). Osmylus, Leach, is composed of those species which possess three ocelli, of which the preceding are destitute. H. maculatus, Fabr., (a local British species, of large size). Nymphes, Leach, founded upon an Australian species, has the same character, but the antennae are filifonn and shorter. (N. myrmeleonides. Leach.) The others have the first segment of the thora.v large and corselet-like, the wings generally carried flat on the back, and the palpi filiform, with the terminal segment conical or nearly cylindric, and often shorter than the preceding. Their larvae are aquatic. Semhlis, Fabr., is composed of the genera Corydalis, ChauUodes, and Sialis, Latr. Corydalis, is distinguished by the mandibles, which ai'e very large and like horns in the males. (C. cornida, a North American insect.) Chaulindes, Latr., has the antenrue pectinated ; and Sialis, has ordinary-sized mandibles, and the antennae are simple and the wings roof-like. S. lutarius, Linn., (the May-fly, a well-known bait for anglers). The larva lives in the water, and creeps or swims slowly, like those of the Ephemeras: it has false branchite at the sides of the abdomen, aud the tail is elongated into a point; but it changes into an inactive pupa. 4. Another division, that of the Termitin(B, is composed of Neuroptera which undergo demi-meta- morphoses, all being terrestrial, active, carnivorous or omnivorous, in all their stages. If we except Mantixpa, (distinct from all the insects of the order in the form of the fore-legs, resembling those of Mantis), the tarsi have at most four joints, which distinguishes them from the preceding genera of the same family. The mandibles are always strong and horny, the hind wings are of the size of the fore wings, and without folds, or are smaller. Some have from five to three joints in the tarsi, the labial palpi cxserted and distinct, and the an- tennre multiarticulate. Mantispa, lUiff., has five joints in all the tarsi; the fore-legs formed as in Mantis ; the antennae are very short. 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| Identifier : transformationso01dunc ( find matches ) Title : The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others Year : 1870 ( 1870s ) Authors : Duncan, P. Martin (Peter Martin), 1821-1891 Blanchard, Emile, 1819-1900. Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects Conger, Paul S., former owner. DSI Abbott, Charles C., former owner. DSI Subjects : Insects Insects Myriapoda Arachnida Crustacea Publisher : Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger Contributing Library : Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor : Smithsonian Libraries View Book Page : Book Viewer About This Book : Catalog Entry View All Images : All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: cJinita; have a rounded and robust body, and threearticulations to their lip. Some have enormous eyes, set closetogether, so that they nearly touch each other in the middleline, and others have their eyes set wide apart. The engraving shows the metamorphosis of ^-Esc/iiia macii-latissivia. On the right one of them is flying; immediately below,in the water, a nymph may be seen projecting her long underlip with its pincers; by its side is a larva in a quiet condition. 358 TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. and above it, on the leaves, a perfect insect may be seen crawlingout of the skin of the nymph preparatory to taking flight. The Agrionidt^ have slender bodies, and the abdomen is cylin-drical, and in the shape of a rod. They are usually very smalldragon flies, and there is a very common one whose males areof a beautiful blue metallic colour, with a greenish-blue band onthe wings, and whose females are of a most brilliant green colour. When we compare some of thv members of the family of the Text Appearing After Image: MLTAMORPHOjES OF THE COMMON ANT LION. (AJynHclcoH furmicariinil.) MynndcoiiidiV, or Ant Lions, with the dragon flies, there doesnot appear to be much difference between them, and there arereally very close affinities between the two families, so far astheir adults or perfect insects are concerned. But there arevery considerable distinctions to be noticed in the nature of themetamorphosis and the habits of the larvae. The Mynnclconidculive on dry land in their early conditions of life. They undergocomplete metamorphoses, and their larva;, which are short, squat,and alwa)s carnivorous, are not in the least like the perfect insects. THE MYRMELEONIDAi. 359 Moreover, they usually construct a cocoon when they have attainedtheir full growth, and are transformed into quiet and inactivenymphs. The perfect insects have their wings less reticulatethan the dragon flies, their eyes are smaller, and the antennaehave many articulations. The mandibles are sharp, and the jawsand lip, which are rather Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.| https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14598097160/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/transformationso01dunc/transformationso01dunc#page/n441/mode/1up| Internet Archive Book Images| | Datei:The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) - being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts (14598097160).jpg
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