antlion

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

ant +‎ lion

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 (layṯ ʿifirrīn) Armenian: մրջնառյուծ (hy) (mrǰnaṙyuc) Old Armenian: մրջիւնառիւծ (mrǰiwnaṙiwc) Catalan: formiga lleó f Chinese: Mandarin: 蟻獅／蚁狮 (zh) (yǐshī) Czech: mravkolev (cs) m Estonian: sipelgalõvi Finnish: muurahaiskorento (fi) (adult), muurahaisleijona (fi) (larva) French: fourmi-lion (fr) m German: Ameisenlöwe (de) m Greek: Ancient: μυρμηκολέων m (murmēkoléōn) Hebrew: אֲרִינָמָל‎ (he) m (arinamál) Isthmus Zapotec: berendrú 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) Latvian: skudrlauva 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) Spanish: mirmelóntido m, hormiga león Swedish: myrlejon n Uyghur: چۈمۈلىخور ھەرە‎ (chümülixor here)

Anagrams

• Antolin, lion ant