Creoleon lugdunensis ( Villers, 1789 )

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 : 94

Creoleon lugdunensis ( Villers, 1789)

Myrmeleon lugdunensis Villers, 1789: 63 . Type Locality: Unknown , probably France (near Lyon [Lugdunum]).

Myrmeleon pallidipennis Rambur, 1842: 394 . Type Locality: Not yet fixed, syntypes from Spain (Andalusia) and France.

Creoleon maurus Navás, 1923c: 340 . Type Locality: Tunisia (Sousse).

World distribution: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey [not India] ( Rambur 1842: 395; Navás 1923c: 340; Ghosh & Sen 1977: 302; H. Aspö ck et al. 2001: 421, 434, 447; Canbulat & Kiyak 2002: 415; Stange 2004: 140; Canbulat 2007: 44; Ábrahám & Giacomino 2020: 41; Oswald 2024a).

Note: The mix-up of the names and synonyms for the species C. lugdunensis and C. plumbeus is a reason for the species name seen in articles about Indian fauna. The junior synonym of C. plumbeus from India, Creoleon murinus , was originally mentioned by Navás ( Navás 1931b: 83). C. lugdunensis was thought to be synonymous with the species names C. plumbeus and C. murinus by Ghosh & Sen (1977). The species name C. lugdunensis in the Indian checklists ( Ghosh & Sen 1977: 302; Ghosh 1983a: 86; Sharma & Chandra 2012: 487) is referred to in the faunistic data of C. murinus given by Navás ( Navás 1931b: 83). It is necessary to remove the species’ name from the Indian faunal lists ( Suryanarayanan et al. 2024b: 6).