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Species Bandidus vafer (Walker, 1853)

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Species Bandidus vafer (Walker, 1853)

  • Myrmeleon vafer Walker, F. 1853. Catalogue of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Pt 2, pp. 193-476 [345].
    Type data:
     Holotype BMNH ♂, NSW.
  • Myrmeleon desperatus Walker, F. 1853. Catalogue of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Pt 2, pp. 193-476 [359].
    Type data:
     Holotype BMNH ♂, New Holland.
  • Myrmeleon perniciosus Walker, F. 1853. Catalogue of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Pt 2, pp. 193-476 [360].
    Type data:
     Holotype BMNH adult sex indet., unknown (not stated).
  • Myrmeleon malefidus Walker, F. 1853. Catalogue of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Pt 2, pp. 193-476 [364].
    Type data:
     Holotype BMNH adult sex indet., TAS (as VDL).
  • Nelees strigatus Navás, L. 1914. Neuroptères de Oceania. Revista de la Real Academia Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales de Madrid 12: 464-483 [471].
    Type data:
     Holotype MNHP adult sex indet., TAS.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • New, T.R. 1985. A revision of the Australian Myrmeleontidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). III. Distoleontini and Acanthaclisinae. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 106: 1-159 [52]

 

Distribution

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

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: unknown.

Adult: predator, volant.