Species Myrmeleon pictifrons Gerstaecker, 1885

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• Myrmeleon pictifrons 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] [96].

  Type data:

   Holotype EMAG adult sex. indet., Sydney, NSW.

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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), Central Arnhem (CA), 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), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), 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), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

Larva: pit-forming, predator, sand, soil dweller, terrestrial.

 

General References

Allen, G.R. & Croft, D.B. 1985. Soil particle size and the pit morphology of the Australian ant-lions Myrmeleon diminutus and M. pictifrons (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 863-874 (structure of larval pit)

Jenkins, B. & Kitching, R.L. 1987. Component analysis and modelling of the movement process: the interaction between ants and ant-lions. Australian Journal of Zoology 35: 313-318 (larval behaviour)

Kitching, R.L. 1984. Some biological and physical determinants of pit size in larvae of Myrmeleon pictifrons Gerstaecker (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 23: 179-184 (larval behaviour and development)

 

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)