Genus Spilosmylus Kolbe, 1897

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• Spilosmylus Kolbe, H.J. 1897. Die Netzflügler Deutsch-OstAfrikas. Berlin. 1-42 pp. [34] [introduced as a subgenus of Osmylus Latreille, 1802].

  Type species:

   Osmylus tuberculatus Walker, 1853 by subsequent designation, see Navás, L. 1911. Notes sur quelques Neuroptères d'Afrique. I. Revue de Zoologie Africaine 1: 230-245 [235]
• Conchylosmylus Krüger, L. 1914. Beiträge zu einer Monographie der Neuropteren familie der Osmyliden. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 75: 9-130 [20].

  Type species:

   Spilosmylus aureus Navás, 1912 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tjeder, B. 1957. The lacewings of southern Africa. 1. Introduction and families Coniopterygidae, Sisyridae and Osmylidae. South African Animal Life 6: 95-188 [172]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread, diverse in New Guinea and Indonesia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

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