Species Myrmeleon croceicollis Gerstaecker, 1885

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Species Myrmeleon croceicollis Gerstaecker, 1885

Myrmeleon croceicollis 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] [30].
Type data:
Holotype EMAG adult sex indet., Australia.
Myrmeleon loweri Tillyard, R.J. 1916. Studies in Australian Neuroptera. No. 2. Descriptions of new genera and species of the families Osmylidae, Myrmeleontidae and Ascalaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 41-70 [65].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH adult sex indet., Broken Hill, NSW.
Grocus gerstaeckeri Navás, L. 1925. Insectos exoticos nuevos a poco conocidos. Memorias de la Real Academia de Ciencias y Arts de Barcelona 19: 181-200 [185].
Type data:
Holotype MZBL Navás coll. ♀ (?lost), Roebourne, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Esben-Petersen, P. 1923. Australian Neuroptera. Part IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48: 576-592 [585] (for Myrmeleon loweri Tillyard, 1916)
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 (for Grocus gerstaeckeri Navás, 1925)

Distribution

States

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

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, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), 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), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
- Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal
- Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
- South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
- Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: unknown.

Predator.

History of changes

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

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

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