Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Museums

Regional Maps

Species Osmylops armatus (McLachlan, 1867)

  • Myiodactylus armatus McLachlan, R. 1867. New genera and species, etc. of Neuropterous insects; and a revision of Mr F. Walker's British Museum Catalogue of Neuroptera, part II (1853) as far as the end of the genus Myrmeleon. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9: 230-281 [264].
    Type data:
     Holotype BMNH adult sex indet. (abdomen missing), N. Aust.
  • Osmylops hulstaerti Navás, L. 1922. Sur des Neuroptères nouveaux ou critiques. (Quatrième Serie). Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 41: 130-137 [133] [author's generic placement tentative].
    Type data:
     Holotype whereabouts unknown adult sex indet. (not in MZBL as designated), N. Aust.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • New, T.R. 1982. A revision of the Australian Nymphidae (Inssecta: Neuroptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 707-750 [746]

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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)

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: arboreal, predator.

Adult: predator, volant.