Genus Distoleon Banks, 1910

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Regional Maps

• Distoleon Banks, N. 1910. Myrmeleonidae from Australia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 3: 40-44 [42].

  Type species:

   Distoleon verticalis Banks, 1910 by original designation.
• Formicaleon Banks, N. 1911. Notes on African Myrmeleonidae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 4: 1-29 [16] [replacement name for Formicaleo sensu Brauer, Hagen and other early authors].

  Type species:

   Myrmeleon tetragrammicus Fabricius, 1798 by original designation (as tetragrammicum).
• Eidoleon Esben-Petersen, P. 1918. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–13. 18. Neuroptera and Mecoptera. Arkiv för Zoologi 11: 1-37 [15].

  Type species:

   Myrmeleon bistrigatus Rambur, 1842 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Markl, W. 1954. Vergleichend-morphologische Studien zur Systematik und Klassifikation der Myrmeleoniden (Insecta, Neuroptera). Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 65: 178-263 [237] (for Eidoleon Esben-Petersen, 1918)
• Kuwayama, S. 1962. A revisional synopsis of the Neuroptera in Japan. Pacific Insects 4: 325-412 [385] (for Formicaleon Banks, 1911)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

E Palaearctic, SE Asia, some Pacific islands.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Norfolk Island
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

General References

Machado, R.J.P., Gillung, J.P., Winterton, S.L., Garzón-Orduña, I.J., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M. & Oswald, J.D. 2019. Owlflies are derived antlions: anchored phylogenomics supports a new phylogeny and classification of Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera). Systematic Entomology 44: 418-450 [445] (in tribe Nemoleontini)

New, T.R. 1996. Neuroptera. 1-104, 184 (App. III), 199-216 (Index) in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 28. Neuroptera, Strepsiptera, Mecoptera, Siphonaptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xiii 230 pp. [Date published 15 August 1996] (Distoleon lentus from 'East Indies' (see <0251> [346]) was reported from Queensland by <0315> [69], but the identity of the specimen has not been confirmed. The species has not been diagnosed clearly and may be conspecific with Distoleon somnolentus (Gerstaecker, 1885))

 

History of changes

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