Corresponding author: Agostino Letardi (
Academic editor: Benjamin Price.
Faunal data concerning 4 poorly known species from Southern Mozambique are reported.
This scarce attention to antlions of African fauna is certainly due to the difficult to identify many of the genera and species because of their unresolved systematics. This situation can be attributed mainly to the numerous and intricate publications of the Catalan Jesuit priest L. Navás, containing a variety of scattered records and cryptic new descriptions (
The aim of this short note is to contribute to the faunal the knowledge concerning African antlions, regarding very poorly known species.
All specimens have been collected at light trap in the same locality: only very few antlions have been preserved, because they have been not the target of the study. The dried pinned specimens are preserved in the CNBFVR (Centro Nazionale per lo Studio e la Conservazione della Biodiversità Forestale “Bosco Fontana” di Verona, Sede di Bosco Fontana. Marmirolo (Mantua), Italy) collection.
An antlion is widespread in Africa (Mansell, pers. com;
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An antlion is very widespread in sub-Saharan Africa (
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I am grateful to Gianluca Nardi (Centro Nazionale per lo Studio e la Conservazione della Biodiversità Forestale “Bosco Fontana” di Verona, Sede di Bosco Fontana. Marmirolo (Mantua), Italy) for allowing me to study