Species Myrmeleon acer Walker, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Myrmeleon acer Walker, F. 1853. List of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum Part 2 (Sialidae-Neuropterides). London : British Museum pp. 193-476. [348].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH adult sex indet. (abdomen missing), N. Holland.
• Myrmeleon inopinus Walker, F. 1853. List of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum Part 2 (Sialidae-Neuropterides). London : British Museum pp. 193-476. [368].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH adult sex indet., N. Holland.
• Myrmeleon hostilis Walker, F. 1853. List of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum Part 2 (Sialidae-Neuropterides). London : British Museum pp. 193-476. [384].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH adult sex. indet., N. Holland.
• Myrmeleon uniseriatus 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] [29].

  Type data:

   Holotype EMAG ♀, Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Banks, N. 1910. Some Neuroptera from Australia. Psyche (Cambridge) 17: 99-105
• Adams, P.A. 1959. Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae and Chrysopidae. Insects of Micronesia 8(2): 13-33 [18]
• New, T.R. 1985. A revision of the Australian Myrmeleontidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). I. Introduction, Myrmeleontini, Protoplectrini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 104: 1-90 [15] (Myrmeleon uniseriatus Gerstaecker, 1885, and discussion of other synonymy)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Also New Guinea.

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • 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, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

Larva: pit-forming, soil dweller, terrestrial.

 

General References

Raff, J.W. 1929. Life history of the ant-lion Myrmeleon inopinus Walk. Victorian Naturalist 45: 302

 

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)