Species Micromus tasmaniae (Walker, 1860)

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• Hemerobius tasmaniae Walker, F. 1860. Characters of undescribed Neuroptera in the collection of W.W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., etc. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 10: 176-199 [186].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, VDL (Van Dieman's Land).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Wise, K.A.J. 1993. Species of Micromus (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae) in New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 30: 93-117 [106].
• Micromus australis Froggatt, W.W. 1904. Experimental work with the Peach Aphis (Aphis persicae-niger Son.). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 15: 603-612 [609] [junior homonym of Micromus australis Hagen, 1858].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, NSW.
• Micromus froggatti Banks, N. 1909. Hemerobiidae from Queensland, Australia. (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 11: 76-81 [77] [nom. nov. for Micromus australis Froggatt, 1904].
• Micromus perkinsi Banks, N. 1939. New genera and species of neuropteroid insects. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 85: 439-504 [468].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ?♂ (ex MCZ), Middle Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• New, T.R. 1988. A revision of the Australian Hemerobiidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: 339-411 [366]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Also New Zealand.

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)

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Norfolk Island
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
• New Zealand

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: arboreal, low vegetation, predator.

Adult: predator, volant.

 

General References

New, T.R. 1984. Comparative biology of some Australian Hemerobiidae. pp. 153-166 in Gepp, J., Aspöck, H. & Hölzel, H. (eds). Progress in World's Neuropterology. Graz : published privately (larval description and biology)

New, T.R. & Boros, C.B. 1983. The early stages of Micromus tasmaniae (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae). Neurology International 2: 213-217