Myrmecaelurus acerbus ( Walker, 1853 )

Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, Kaur, Simarjit, Akbar, Shahid Ali, Hassan, Muhammad Asghar, Pandher, Manpreet Singh & Oswald, John D., 2024, Catalog of the Neuropterida of India (Insecta: Neuroptera, Megaloptera, Raphidioptera), Zootaxa 5544 (1), pp. 1-128 : 67-68

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Myrmeleon acerbus Walker, 1853: 366 . Type Locality: India (northern).

Myrmeleon atrox Walker, 1853: 390 . Type Locality: Turkey.

Myrmeleon iners Walker, 1853: 390 . Type Locality: Turkey.

Myrmecaelurus aequans Navás, 1913d: 274 . Type Locality: Turkmenistan (Ashgabat [Aschabad]).

Myrmecaelurus varians Navás, 1913d: 273 . Type Locality: Turkmenistan (Balkan: Bala-Ishem [ BalaIschem ]).

Myrmecaelurus nigellus Navás, 1930a: 38 . Type Locality: India (Telangana: near Hyderabad).

Myrmecaelurus nematicus Navás, 1932h: 77 . Type Locality: Turkmenistan (Lebap: Repetek [ Repeten ]).

Indian distribution: Bihar: Samastipur Dist.: Pusa (town); Gujarat: Anand Dist.: Anand (city); Jharkhand: Palamu Dist.: Palamu [Palamow] (region); Punjab: District Unknown: Chevist?; Rajasthan: Bikaner Dist.: Kolayat [Kalayat] (town); Jaipur Dist.: Kalakh Dam (locale); Sambhar Lake (lake); Jaisalmer Dist.: Nokh (village); Nagaur Dist.: Gudha (village); Lohrana [Lihorana] (village); Sikar Dist.: Nursery near Circuit House (locale); Tonk Dist.: Pond at Baroni (village); Telangana: Hyderabad Dist.: Hyderabad (city); Uttarakhand: Dehradun Dist.: Mussoorie (hill station) ( Needham 1909: 201; Navás 1930a: 40; Navás 1931b: 80; Sala de Castellarnau 1946: 122; Ghosh 1977f: 312; Ghosh & Sen 1977: 309; Ghosh 1984: 55; Kaur et al. 2019a: 439).

World distribution: Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Mongolia, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan ( Walker 1853: 390; Needham 1909: 201; Navás 1913d: 275; Esben-Petersen 1932: 164; Kimmins 1950b: 239; Hölzel 1972: 17; Zakharenko & Krivokhatsky 1993: 68; Iqbal & Yousuf 1997: 133; H. Aspöck et al. 2001: 437; Güsten 2003: 138; Stange 2004: 266, 276; Krivokhatsky et al. 2015: 812; Oswald 2024a).

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