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Drawing of Antlions Mating

This drawing by Monika Haenel is based on a photograph by Andreas M. Yasseri. The drawing shows a mating pair of Euroleon nostras, a common European antlion species.

Antlions mating (line drawing)

Drawing © 1994 Monika Haenel. Photograph © 1994 Andreas M. Yasseri. Reproduced with permission.

References

Yasseri, Andreas M., and Jacob Parzefall. 1996. Life cycle and reproductive behaviour of the antlion Euroleon nostras (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785) in northern Germany (Insecta: Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae). Pp. 269-288 in Pure and Applied Research in Neuropterology. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Neuropterology. Cairo, Egypt, 1994. M. Canard, H. Aspöck, & M. W. Mansell. (Eds.). Toulouse, France.


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