Species Bandidus breviusculus (Gerstaecker, 1885)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Myrmeleon breviusculus Gerstaecker, C.E.A. 1885. Zwei fernere Decaden Australischen Neuropteren Megaloptera. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein von Neu-Vorpommern und Rügen in Greifswald 16: 84-116 [publication dated 1884] [100].

  Type data:

   Holotype EMAG adult sex indet., Peak Downs, QLD.
• Alloformicaleon waterhousei Tillyard, R.J. 1916. Studies in Australian Neuroptera. No. 2. Descriptions of new genera and species of the families Osmylidae, Myrmeleontidae and Ascalaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 41-70 [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Woodford, NSW (description gives Stradbroke Is., QLD, the data on the paratype label).
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♂.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• New, T.R. 1985. A revision of the Australian Myrmeleontidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). III. Distoleontini and Acanthaclisinae. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 106: 1-159 [48]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

Larva: unknown.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
25-Feb-2022		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)