Dendroleontini Banks, 1899

Machado, Renato Jose Pires & Oswald, John David, 2020, Morphological phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the former antlion subtribe Periclystina (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae: Dendroleontinae), Zootaxa 4796 (1), pp. 1-322 : 72

Dendroleontini Banks, 1899

Type genus. Dendroleon Brauer, 1866 .

Description. Metathorax: Miller’s organ usually present. Wings: forewing Banksian lines present. Legs: generally, long (profemur> 2x longer than procoxa). Male terminalia: gonarcus usually elaborated; mediuncus usually present. Female terminalia: anterior gonapophyses present in some species; posterior gonapophyses generally long and with well developed cavisetae; 9 th tergite with ventral digitiform process generally present; ventromedial plate absent.

Distribution. Dendroleontini are found on all continents except South America. The Periclystus genus group is known from all Australian states, and three isolated records from Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, and the Solomon Islands.

Included genera (30). Austrogymnocnemia , Bankisus , Bullanga , Chrysoleon , Compsoleon , Cuca , Cymothales , Dendroleon , Doblina , Epacanthaclisis , Froggattisca , Gatzara , Glenoleon , Indoclystus , Megagonoleon gen. nov., Minyleon gen. nov., Mossega , Neleinus , Nepsalus , Newleon , Nomes , Nuglerus , Omoleon , Parvoleon , Periclystus , Phanoleon , Riekoleon , Speleon , Tricholeon , Voltor .

Comments. Dendroleontini is the largest tribe in the subfamily Dendroleontinae ( Machado et al. 2019) . The tribe is particularly diverse in Australia and contains most of the species previously placed in the former subtribe Periclystina . The Australian Dendroleontini are divided into 14 genera—eight that were previously placed in the former subtribe Dendroleontina ( Chrysoleon , Compsoleon , Dendroleon , Froggattisca , Mossega , Newleon , Parvoleon , and Speleon ) ( Stange 2004; Miller & Stange 2012), which are not treated in this revision; and six that form the monophyletic Periclystus genus group ( Austrogymnocnemia , Glenoleon , Megagonoleon gen. nov., Minyleon gen. nov., Periclystus , and Riekoleon ), which are treated here. The former Periclystina genera Ceratoleon and Platyleon are synonymized here with Austrogymnocnemia and Glenoleon respectively.