Species Stenosmylus tenuis (Walker, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Osmylus tenuis 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 [234].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, TAS.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kimmins, D.E. 1940. A revision of the osmylid subfamilies Stenosmylinae and Kalosmylinae (Neuroptera). Novitates Zoologicae 42: 165-201 [168].

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), 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), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), 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, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: arboreal, cortical, predator.

Adult: volant.

 

General References

New, T.R. 1974. The egg and first instar larva of Stenosmylus (Neuroptera: Osmylidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 2: 24-27