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 From ant lion
antlion (plural antlions
Any of various species of insects , many of them nocturnal, in the family Myrmeleontidae damselflies . The larvae bury themselves in sand below a cone-shaped pit in which they trap insects such as ants . 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