Species Pseudoformicaleo nubecula (Gerstaecker, 1885)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Creagris nubecula 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] [101].

  Type data:

   Holotype EMAG adult sex indet., Rockhampton, QLD.
• Protoplectron costatum Banks, N. 1910. Myrmeleonidae from Australia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 3: 40-44 [41].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ (ex MCZ), Darwin, NT.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Esben-Petersen, P. 1915. Australian Neuroptera. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 40: 56-74 [67]
• 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 [43] (for extralimital synonymy)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Possibly elsewhere in SE Asia, depending on synonymy accepted.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, W plateau
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Malaysia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

Larva: predator, terrestrial.

 

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)