Species Micromus timidus Hagen, 1853

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Species Micromus timidus Hagen, 1853

Micromus timidus Hagen, H.A. 1853. Ueber die Neuroptera von Mozambique. Berichte Verhandlungen Akademie Berlin (1853): 479-482 [481].
Type data:
Status unknown, ZMB depository uncertain, Luabo, Mozambique.
Micromus navigatorum Brauer, F. 1867. Beschreibung neuer Neuroptera aus dem Museum Godeffroy und Sohn in Hamburg. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 17: 505-512 [508].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Fiji and Samoa.
Micromus vinaceus 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] [111].
Type data:
Status unknown, EMAG (depository uncertain), ?QLD, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Tjeder, B. 1961. Neuroptera-Planipennia. The lacewings of southern Africa. 4. Family Hemerobiidae. South African Animal Life 8: 296-408 [315] (also for extralimital synonymy)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea, Indonesia, SE Asia, Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Western Pacific, Hawaii (introduced).

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
Hawaii

Nearctic Region

Oriental Region

India
Indonesia
Sri Lanka

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

Larva: active predator, arboreal, low vegetation.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults especially common on low vegetation.

General References

Williams, F.X. 1927. The brown Australian lacewing (Micromus vinaceus). Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Records 31: 246-249 (introduction to Hawaii for biological control of sugarcane pests)

Zimmerman, E.C. 1957. Insects of Hawaii. VI. Ephemeroptera-Neuroptera-Trichoptera and supplements to vols I–V. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press.

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

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		31-Mar-2015	MODIFIED

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