Genus Micromus Rambur, 1842

Museums

Regional Maps

• Micromus Rambur, P. 1842. Histoire naturelle des Insectes neuroptères. Paris : Suites à Buffon. [416].

  Type species:

   Hemerobius variegatus Fabricius, 1793 by subsequent designation, see Banks, N. 1905. A revision of the Nearctic Hemerobiidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32: 21-51 [44].
• Nesomicromus Perkins, R.C.L. 1899. Neuroptera. Fauna Hawaiiensis 2: 31-89 [37].

  Type species:

   Nesomicromus vagus Perkins, 1899 by subsequent designation, see Zimmerman, E.C. 1940. Studies of Hawaiian Neuroptera. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 10: 487-510 [505].
• Austromicromus Nakahara, W. 1960. Systematic studies on the Hemerobiidae (Neuroptera). Mushi 34: 1-69 [35].

  Type species:

   Hemerobius tasmaniae Walker, 1858 by original designation ([1860]).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Oswald, J.D. 1993. Revision and cladistic analysis of the world genera of the family Hemerobiidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 101: 143-299 [253] (also for extralimital distribution and synonyms)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Nearly cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), 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), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), 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

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

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

Nearctic Region

Oriental Region

• India
• Indonesia
• Sri Lanka

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		31-Mar-2015	MODIFIED