Dendroleon Brauer 1866

Dendroleon Brauer, 1866 Diagnosis. Anterior margin of the clypeo-labrum slightly concave; mandibles bent upward, equipped with 3 equidistant pairs of teeth; ocular tubercles prominent but small; mesonotum with median tuft of black hair-like setae raising in proximity at the base and re-approaching at the apex; mesothoracic and abdominal spiracles not prominent; thoracic setiferous processes pedunculated; VIII abdominal sternite without odontoid processes; IX abdominal sternite noticeably longer than wide, without rastra or fossoria. Examined species. D. pantherinus (Fabricius, 1787). Comments. Dendroleon is a widely distributed genus, present in North America, Eurasia and Australia, comprising about 20 species (Stange 2004). The larvae are known only for D. pantherinus, the N-American D. obsoletus (Say, 1839) and D. speciosus Banks, 1905 and finally the Taiwanese D. esbenpeterseni Miller & Stange, 2000 (Stange et al. 2003; Stange 2004, 2008).Published as part of Badano, Davide & Pantaleoni, Roberto Antonio, 2014, The larvae of European Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera), pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 3762 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3762.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/490935