DIAGNOSIS
This is the smallest species of Myrmeleon on Madagascar with a forewing length of about 23 mm. The pronotum is dark, with four pale lateral spots and usually pale anterior margin. The forewing setal bases are dark creating an alternating pale and dark pattern. The pterostigma is dark. The base of each abdominal tergite is often pale, tapering posteriorly. Sometimes these spots are joined in a medial pale abdominal stripe.

  

TYPE DEPOSITORY
ISNB, Brussels.
TYPE LOCALITY
Holotype: Maurice l'ile (Mauritius), Marchal.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
This species is widely dispersed on the African mainland (Namibia, Angola, Zaire, Tanzania, Mauritania, Sudan) as well as on the Indian Ocean Islands (Aldabra, Seychelles)(Stange, 2004). Within Madagascar it is probably the most widely dispersed species of antlion on the island.
TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION
All months of the year.
ELEVATION
Sea level to 1125 m.

REMARKS
There appear to be two forms. Some males have a pilula axillaris and others don't. I can find no other consistent differences between the forms.