Myrmecaelurus trigrammus (Pallas, 1771)

Myrmeleon trigrammus Pallas, 1771: 469 . Type Locality: Country unknown, Russia (?) [Russischen Reichs].

Myrmeleon pictus Fabricius, 1798: 206 . Type Locality: Russia [southern; Rossia meridionali].

Myrmeleon flavus Rambur, 1842: 398 . Type Locality: Not yet fixed, syntypes from Spain and Italy.

Myrmecaelurus trigrammus var. aureus Navás, 1911f: 94 . Type Locality: Iran ( Chahar Mahall va Bakhtiari: Zagros, upper Karun [ Haut Karoum]: Bazoft [Bazouft].

Myrmecaelurus trigrammus var. pupillus Navás, 1911f: 94 . Type Locality: Iran (Chahar Mahall va Bakhtiari: Bazoft [Bazouft].

Myrmecaelurus trigrammus var. obscuratus Navás, 1914k: 197 . Type Locality: Somalia (Ouanda).

Myrmecaelurus trigrammus var. languidus Navás, 1918e: 168 . Type Locality: Algeria (Laghouat: El Aghouat).

Myrmecaelurus trigrammus var. phaeophlebius Navás, 1928g: 93 . Type Locality: Iran [Persia].

Myrmecaelurus trigrammus derbendicus Hölzel, 1972: 15 . Type Locality: Iran (Tehran: Darband [ Derbend]).

Indian distribution: India [no further locality] (Whittington 2002: 383).

World distribution: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Moldova, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Somalia, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Yemen (Fabricius 1798: 206; Rambur 1842: 399; Walker 1853: 363; Hagen 1858b: 125; Navás 1911f: 94; Navás 1913e: 447; Navás 1914k: 197; Navás 1929g: 18; Hölzel 1972: 15; Popov 1977: 16; Zakharenko & Krivokhatsky 1993: 68; H. Aspöck et al. 2001: 412, 424, 437; Canbulat & Kiyak 2002: 414; Whittington 2002: 383; Stange 2004: 275; Canbulat 2007: 46; Monserrat & Acevedo 2011: 126; Devetak et al. 2015: 23; Krivokhatsky et al. 2015: 811; Devetak et al. 2019b: 192; Oswald 2024a).