Dendroleon pantherinus

Dendroleon pantherinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Neuroptera
Family: Myrmeleontidae
Genus: Dendroleon
Species: D. pantherinus
Binomial name
Dendroleon pantherinus
(Fabricius, 1787)

Dendroleon pantherinus is a species of neuropteran of the Myrmeleontidae family.

Drawing of a larva by Friedrich Moritz Brauer (1867).

Taxonomy

The species has been described in 1787 by the Danish entomologist Johan Christian Fabricius, with the original combination Myrmeleon pantherinum. The genus Dendroleon is created by Friedrich Moritz Brauer in 1866, with D. pantherinus as type species.

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