Nemoleon Navás, 1909

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Nemoleon Navás, 1909

Diagnosis. Mandibles slightly upturned, relatively robust, equipped with 3 teeth; head and pronotum covered by white scale-like setae and dolichasters; pronotum dorsally covered by whitish scale-like setae; mesothoracic spiracles cone-shaped raised on tubercle; mesothorax with a short anterior pair of pedunculated setiferous processes, posterior pair sub-pedunculated; VIII sternite with odontoid processes; IX sternite equipped with rastra bearing 4 digging setae of which the internal one is shorter than the others.

Examined species. N. notatus (Rambur, 1842) .

Comments. A mainly Afrotropical genus, Nemoleon comprises over 20 species, of which only 3 are distributed in the western Palaearctic region ( Hölzel 2002; Stange 2004). The larvae of this genus are described here for the first time.