antlion

See also: ant lion

English

Antlion pit traps, the larvae at the bottom hidden under the sand

Antlion larva removed from its pit trap

Adult antlion in the winged, free-flying form

Alternative forms

• ant lion

Etymology

From ant +‎ lion. Compare translingual Myrmeleon.

Noun

antlion (plural antlions)

1. Any of various species of insects, many of them nocturnal, in the family Myrmeleontidae. The adults superficially resemble the unrelated damselflies. The larvae bury themselves in sand below a cone-shaped pit in which they trap insects such as ants.

Translations

nocturnal insects

• Afrikaans: mierleeu (af)
• Arabic: لَيْث عِفِرِّين m (layṯ ʕifirrīn), أَسَد النَّمْلِ m (ʔasad an-namli)
• Armenian: մրջնառյուծ (hy) (mrǰnaṙyuc)

  Old Armenian: մրջիւնառիւծ (mrǰiwnaṙiwc)

• Belarusian: мура́шыны леў m (murášyny ljew)
• Catalan: formiga lleó f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蟻獅 / 蚁狮 (zh) (yǐshī)

• Czech: mravkolev (cs) m
• Dutch: mierenleeuw (nl) m
• Estonian: sipelgalõvi
• Finnish: muurahaiskorento (fi) (adult), muurahaisleijona (fi) (larva)
• French: fourmi-lion (fr) m, fourmilion (fr) m
• German: Ameisenlöwe (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: μυρμηκολέων m (murmēkoléōn)

• Hebrew: אֲרִינָמָל (he) m (arinamál)
• Hungarian: hangyaleső (hu)
• Icelandic: maurljón n, sandverpur m
• Italian: formicaleone (it) m
• Japanese: ウスバカゲロウ (ja) (usubakagerō), 蟻地獄 (ja) (ありじごく,アリジゴク, arijigoku) (larva)
• Kazakh: күреңке (küreñke)
• Latin: formīca-leō m
• Latvian: skudrlauva m
• Malayalam: കുഴിയാന (ml) (kuḻiyāna)
• Navajo: aniłtʼániitsʼóóz, aniłtʼánii biyázhí
• Polish: mrówkolew (pl) m
• Portuguese: formiga-leão f
• Romanian: leul-furnicilor (ro) m
• Russian: муравьи́ный лев (ru) m (muravʹínyj lev)
• Serbo-Croatian: mravolovac m, mravlji lav m
• Slovene: volkec m
• Spanish: mirmelóntido m, hormiga león f
• Swedish: myrlejon n
• Turkish: karınca aslanı
• Uyghur: چۈمۈلىخور ھەرە (chümülixor here)
• Vietnamese: cúc (vi), kiến sư tử
• Yoruba: àgbálúkú, kúlúsọ
• Zapotec:

  Isthmus Zapotec: berendrú

See also

extant orders of insects in English

• jumping bristletails, archaeognathans (Archaeognatha)
• cockroaches and termites, blattodeans (Blattodea)
• beetles, coleopterans (Coleoptera)
• earwigs, dermapterans (Dermaptera)
• flies, dipterans (Diptera)
• webspinners, embiopterans (Embioptera)
• mayflies, ephemeropterans (Ephemeroptera)
• ice crawlers, grylloblattodeans (Grylloblattodea)
• true bugs, hemipterans (Hemiptera)
• hymenopterans (ants, bees, wasps, etc.) (Hymenoptera)
• butterflies and moths, lepidopterans (Lepidoptera)
• mantises, mantodeans (Mantodea)
• mantophasmids (Mantophasmatodea)
• scorpionflies, mecopterans (Mecoptera)
• megalopterans (alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies, etc.) (Megaloptera)
• neuropterans (antlions, lacewings, mantisflies, etc.) (Neuroptera)
• damselflies and dragonflies, odonatans (Odonata)
• orthopterans (crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, etc.) (Orthoptera)
• stick insects, phasmatodeans (Phasmatodea)
• stoneflies, plecopterans (Plecoptera)
• booklice, psocodeans (Psocodea)
• snakeflies, raphidiopterans (Raphidioptera)
• fleas, siphonapterans (Siphonaptera)
• strepsipterans (Strepsiptera)
• thrips, thysanopterans (Thysanoptera)
• caddis flies, trichopterans (Trichoptera)
• zorapterans (Zoraptera)
• silverfish, zygentomans (Zygentoma)

Anagrams

• Antolin, lion ant