Distoleon Banks, 1910

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Distoleon Banks, 1910

Diagnosis. Mandibles equipped with 3 equidistant teeth; pronotum covered by large setae interspersed with spiniform bristles; mesothoracic spiracles raised on tubercle; first pair of mesothoracic setiferous processes pedunculated, second pair sub-pedunculated; VIII sternite with odontoid processes; IX sternite with two prominent rastra each bearing 4 sub-equal digging setae.

Examined species. D. tetragrammicus (Fabricius, 1798) .

Comments. The genus Distoleon is a large genus, comprising at least 120 species distributed all across the Old World ( Stange 2004). However, the larval stages are known only for the European D. tetragrammicus (Fabricius, 1798) (see below) and D. annulatus (Klug, 1834) ( Acevedo et al. 2013) and for few Asiatic species ( Stange et al. 2003; Stange 2004).