myrmecoleon

myrmecoleon [LL < μυρμηκολέων] , ant-lion. myrmicoleon Aldh. Aen. 18 tit.; myrmicaleon ‥ formicarum leo GlC M 379; si animadvertisset in eodem libro genitivum myrmicoleontis ‥ more Greco Abbo QG 15 (34); mirmicoleon Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 367 (v. myrmex 1); mirmicaleon sive mirmiceon Bart. Angl. XVIII 10 (v. formicaleo); mirmicoleon, i. leo formicarum SB 30.