The larvae of European Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera) Author Badano, Davide davide.badano@gmail.com Author Pantaleoni, Roberto Antonio r.pantaleoni@ise.cnr.it text Zootaxa 2014 2014-02-05 3762 1 1 71 journal article 5916 10.11646/zootaxa.3762.1.1 4577eacc-752d-4eb7-bf1b-6585f03d7d6a 1175-5326 4909357 68E063AB-2C09-4FCA-8761-FBC73D562990 Creoleon Tillyard, 1918 Diagnosis. Mandibles relatively short and stout, equipped with 3 teeth, distance between the basal and median teeth smaller than that between the median and apical teeth; pronotum covered by sparse short setae; mesothoracic spiracles raised on a very short tubercle; first pair of mesothoracic setiferous processes sub-pedunculated, second pair sessile; VIII sternite provided with odontoid processes; IX sternite equipped with an anterior group of digging setae on the ventral surface and two rastra each bearing 4 digging setae. Examined species. C. lugdunensis (Villers, 1789) . Comments. The genus Creoleon comprises 58 known species and it is widely distributed in Eurasia and Africa ( Stange 2004 ). The only described larvae belong to the commonest European species: C. lugdunensis (Villers, 1789) ( Steffan 1965 , 1975 ) and C. plumbeus (Olivier, 1811) ( Willmann 1977 ; Krivokhatsky 2011 ).