Myrmecaelurus A. Costa, 1855

Badano, Davide & Pantaleoni, Roberto Antonio, 2014, The larvae of European Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera), Zootaxa 3762 (1), pp. 1-71 : 41

Myrmecaelurus A. Costa, 1855

Diagnosis. Mandibles with 3 teeth, the median tooth is the largest and closer to the apical tooth than to the basal tooth; the median and apical teeth are directly in contact and not separated by setae; external margin of the mandibles covered by long setae; ocular tubercle not prominent; pronotum covered with short and robust bristles; spiracles sessile; thorax equipped with sessile setiferous processes; metathoracic legs with a fringe of setae; VIII abdominal sternite without odontoid processes and provided with numerous digging setae; IX abdominal sternite ventrally covered by digging setae and equipped with very large rastra.

Examined species. M. trigrammus (Pallas, 1771) .

Comments. The mainly Palaearctic genus Myrmecaelurus is not well delimited and it is often subdivided in different subgenera ( Aspöck et al. 1980), in some case raised to genus level ( Krivokhatsky 2011). The presence of notable morphological differences in the larvae belonging to Aspoeckiana Hölzel, 1969 and Nohoveus Navás, 1919 ( Krivokhatsky 2011) further supports their status as separated genera.