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.

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)
• Armenian: մրջնառյուծ (hy) (mrǰnaṙyuc)

  Old Armenian: մրջիւնառիւծ (mrǰiwnaṙiwc)

• Belarusian: мура́шыны леў m (murášyny ljeŭ)
• 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: μυρμηκολέων m (murmēkoléōn)

• Hebrew: אֲרִינָמָל (he) m (arinamál)
• Hungarian: hangyaleső (hu)
• Icelandic: maurljón n, sandverpur m
• 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)
• 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
• Uyghur: چۈمۈلىخور ھەرە (chümülixor here)
• Vietnamese: cúc (vi), kiến sư tử
• Yoruba: àgbálúkú, kúlúsọ

Anagrams

• Antolin, lion ant