Creoleon Tillyard, 1918

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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).