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Un Ascalaphe soufré (Libelloides coccajus), Toulouse (31).

"Les Ascalaphes sont apparentés à l’ordre des Neuroptères (ou Névroptères Planipennes), comme les fourmilions et les chrysopes en raison des caractéristiques de l'appareil buccal des larves et de leurs ailes membraneuses armées de fortes nervures. Il existe 300 espèces d’Ascalaphidés dans le monde, 11 seulement résident dans la France méridionale et 3 autres ne sont pas clairement confirmées.

Leur aspect peut être considéré comme intermédiaire entre des Libellules et des Papillons, ce qui leur donne un charme tout particulier."
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(En) "Owlflies are dragonfly-like insects with large bulging eyes and long knobbed antennae. They are not true flies, but rather neuropterans in the family Ascalaphidae, and as such are not closely related to the true flies at all; to the dragonflies and damselflies, they are even more distantly related.

Owlflies are readily distinguished from dragonflies because the latter have short bristle-like antennae. The closely related ant-lions, family Myrmeleontidae, have short, clubbed antennae, smaller eyes, and very different wing venation[1]. The sole living member of the subfamily Albardiinae, the Brazilian Albardia furcata, also has short, clubbed antennae, but its typical reticulate ascalaphid wing venation demonstrates its actual relationships."

Sources :
http://cyrille.deliry.free.fr/asc/ascalaphesf.htm (Fr)
http://www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/libelloides_coccajus.html (Fr)
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascalaphe_(insecte) (Fr)
http://aelmh.free.fr/Libelloides_coccajus.htm (Fr)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owlfly (En)


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