Species Glenoleon osmyloides (Gerstaecker, 1885)

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• Myrmeleon osmyloides Gerstaecker, C.E.A. 1885. Vier Decaden von Neuropteren aus der Familie Megaloptera Burm. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein von Neu-Vorpommern und Rügen in Greifswald 16: 1-49 [publication dated 1884] [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype EMAG adult sex indet., Australia.
• Glenoleon annulicornis Esben-Petersen, P. 1915. Australian Neuroptera. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 40: 56-74 [72].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1 adult sex indet. (whereabouts of other syntypes unknown), unknown (no data with type).
• Glenoleon gerstaeckeri New, T.R. 1985. A revision of the Australian Myrmeleontidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). II. Dendroleontini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 105: 1-170 [42].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂, Kalbarrie, WA.

  Secondary source:

   Machado, R.J.P. & Oswald, J.D. 2020. Morphological phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the former antlion subtribe Periclystina (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae: Dendroleontinae). Zootaxa 4796: 1-322 [72] (synonymy).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Esben-Petersen, P. 1923. Australian Neuroptera. Part IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48: 576-592 [578]

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), 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), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), 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), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

Larva: unknown.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
25-Feb-2022	NEUROPTERA	27-Aug-2021	MODIFIED
25-Feb-2022		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)