- Title
- Some adaptations of myrmeleontid (Neuroptera) and rhagionid (Diptera) larvae to life in hot dry sand
- Creator
- Youthed, Gayle Jean
- Subject
- Ant lions Rhagionidae
- Date Issued
- 1974
- Date
- 1974
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- PhD
- Identifier
- vital:5818
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007228
- Description
- From Introduction: Larvae of the families Myrmeleontidae, Neuroptera, (ant-lions) and Rhagionidae, Diptera, (worm-lions) all live in hot dry sand. Many of the ant-lion larvae and all the worm-lion larvae, construct small conical pits in the sand which are used for the capture of prey (Haub, 1942; Youthed and Horan, 1969a). Those ant-lion larvae which do not construct pits lie in wait for their prey just below the surface of the sand.
- Format
- 146, 85 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science, Zoology and Entomology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Youthed, Gayle Jean
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