Creoleon plumbeus

Creoleon plumbeus (Olivier, 1811) Myrmeleon plumbeus Olivier, 1811: 126. Type Locality: Greece. Myrmeleon murinus Klug in Ehrenberg, 1834: pl. XXXVI. Type Locality: Lebanon. Myrmeleon syriacus Klug in Ehrenberg, 1834: pl. XXXVI. Type Locality: Lebanon. Myrmeleon tabidus Eversmann, 1841: 359. Type Locality: Unknown. Creoleon plumbeus var. maculosus Navás, 1928h: 80. Type Locality: Spain (Madrid: El Escorial). Indian distribution: Maharashtra: Mumbai Suburban Dist.: Bandra (suburb) (Navás 1931b: 83; Sala de Castellarnau 1946: 121). World distribution: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Moldova, Morocco, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan [not India] (Olivier 1811: 126; Ehrenberg 1834: pl. XXXVI; Banks 1911b: 15; Esben-Petersen 1915a: 80; Navás 1915c: 387; Morton 1921: 215; Esben-Petersen 1925: 341; Morton 1925: 407; Navás 1928h: 80; Navás 1929g: 25; Navás 1931b: 83; Kimmins 1950b: 239; Zakharenko & Krivokhatsky 1993: 72; H. Aspö ck et al. 2001: 421, 434, 447; Stange 2004: 143; Michel & Letourmy 2007: 201; Letardi et al. 2010: 186; Krivokhatsky et al. 2012: 572; Devetak et al. 2019b: 193; Oswald 2024a). Note: Navás (1931b: 83) reported faunistic data for Creoleon murinus, a taxon considered to be a synonym of C. plumbeus, from Mumbai, India, and was followed by Sala de Castellarnau (1946: 121). Later, it was cited by Stange (2004: 143), as C. plumbeus. Hagen (1866: 401) designated C. griseus, another species known from the Indian fauna, as a synonym of C. plumbeus, offering another possible justification for the species’ inclusion in Indian fauna. To our knowledge, however, there are no explicit Indian records for C. plumbeus in the literature, and we remove the species from the Indian fauna following Suryanarayanan et al. (2024b: 6).