Species Micromus timidus Hagen, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Micromus timidus Hagen, H.A. 1853. Ueber die Neuroptera von Mozambique. Berichte Verhandlungen Akademie Berlin (1853): 479-482 [481].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZMB depository uncertain, Luabo, Mozambique.
• Micromus navigatorum Brauer, F. 1867. Beschreibung neuer Neuroptera aus dem Museum Godeffroy und Sohn in Hamburg. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 17: 505-512 [508].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Fiji and Samoa.
• Micromus vinaceus 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] [111].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, EMAG (depository uncertain), ?QLD, Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tjeder, B. 1961. Neuroptera-Planipennia. The lacewings of southern Africa. 4. Family Hemerobiidae. South African Animal Life 8: 296-408 [315] (also for extralimital synonymy)

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea, Indonesia, SE Asia, Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Western Pacific, Hawaii (introduced).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Hawaii

Nearctic Region

Oriental Region

• India
• Indonesia
• Sri Lanka

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: active predator, arboreal, low vegetation.

Adult: predator, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults especially common on low vegetation.

 

General References

Williams, F.X. 1927. The brown Australian lacewing (Micromus vinaceus). Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Records 31: 246-249 (introduction to Hawaii for biological control of sugarcane pests)

Zimmerman, E.C. 1957. Insects of Hawaii. VI. Ephemeroptera-Neuroptera-Trichoptera and supplements to vols I–V. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press