Maine Biota Project

Neuropterans of Mount Desert Island
(Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Arthropoda, Class Hexapoda, Order Neuroptera)


Neuropterans of Maine

Neuropterans of Mount Desert Island


Below is a working list of Mount Desert Island’s neuropterans.
Family Genus Species Authority Common Name Source (full citation given below this table)
Sialidae Sialis infumata Newman ? Bar Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 42., "Duck Brook")
Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 42., "Echo Lake", "Long Pond" [see note 1 below])
Sialidae Sialis vagans Ross ? Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 42.)
Sialidae Chauliodes fasciatus Walker ? Bar Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 42., "Sieur de Monts Spring", "Corfield")
Sialidae Chauliodes rastricornis Rham. ? Bar Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 42., "Corfield")
Sialidae Chauliodes serricornis Say ? Bar Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 42., "Witch Hole", "Duck Brook")
Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 42., "Jordan Pond", "Echo Lake")
Sialidae Chauliodes pectinicornis L. ? no town given: Procter (1946, p. 42.)
Sisyridae Sisyra vicaria Walker ? town(s)?: Procter (1946, p. 42., "Stations F337 and F339")
Sisyridae Sisyra vicaria var. umbrata Needham ? Southwest Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 42.)
Sisyridae Climacia areolaris Hagen ? Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 42., "Robinson Mt." [now called Acadia Mountain])
Sympherobiidae Sympherobius amiculus Fitch ? Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 42., "N. E. Harbor")
Hemerobiidae Hemerobius conjunctus Fitch ? Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 43., "N. E. Harbor")
Hemerobiidae Hemerobius conjunctus var. pinidumus Fitch / Fitch ? Bar Harbor?: Procter (1946, p. 43., "Laboratory")
Hemerobiidae Hemerobius humuli L. ? Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 43., "N. E. Harbor")
Hemerobiidae Hemerobius hyalinatus Fitch ? Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 43., "N. E. Harbor")
Hemerobiidae Hemerobius marginatus Steph. ? Bar Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 43.)
Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 43., "Echo Lake", "Long Pond" [see note 1 below])
Hemerobiidae Hemerobius simplex Banks ? Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 43., "N. E. Harbor")
Hemerobiidae Hemerobius stigmaterus Fitch ? Bar Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 43., "Corfield")
Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 43., "Robinson Mt.")
Hemerobiidae Hemerobius venustus Banks ? Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 43., "N. E. Harbor")
Hemerobiidae Boriomyia disjuncta Banks ? Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 43., "N. E. Harbor")
Southwest Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 43.)
Hemerobiidae Boriomyia longifrons Walker ? town not given: Procter (1946, p. 43.)
Hemerobiidae Micromus angulatus Steph. ? Southwest Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 43.)
Hemerobiidae Micromus montanus Banks ? Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 43., N. E. Harbor")
Hemerobiidae Micromus posticus Walker ? Southwest Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 43.)
Polystoechotidae Polystoechotes punctatus Fabricius ? Bar Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 43.)
Chrysopidae Chrysopa nigricornis Burmeister ? Bar Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 43., "Eden")
Chrysopidae Chrysopa oculata Say ? Bar Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 43., "Eden")
Southwest Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 43.)
Chrysopidae Chrysopa ypsilon Fitch ? Bar Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 43., "Eden")
Chrysopidae Meleoma emuncta Fitch ? Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 44., "N. E. Harbor")
Chrysopidae Meleoma signoretti Fitch ? Bar Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 44., "Duck Brook")
Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 44., "Long Pond" [see note 1 below], "N. E. Harbor")
Chrysopidae Meleoma verticalis ? ? Bar Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 44.)
Chrysopidae Eremochrysa hageni Banks ? Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 44., "N. E. Harbor")
Coniopterygidae Coniopteryx gidae ? ? town?: Procter (1946, p. 44., "Somes Sound Inlet")
Coniopterygidae Coniopteryx vicina Hagen ? Bar Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 44.)
Mount Desert: Procter (1946, p. 44., "Echo Lake")
Coniopterygidae Conwentzia hageni Bks. ? Bar Harbor: Procter (1946, p. 44., "lower Breakneck")


Note:
1. On the map in the book, only what is now known as Little Long Pond (in Seal Harbor, town of Mount Desert) was labeled "Long Pond". The other pond known today as Long Pond (towns of Mount Desert and Southwest Harbor) was labeled "Great Pond".

Source:
Procter, William. 1946. Biological Survey of the Mount Desert Region, Part VII. Philadelphia: Wistar Institute.