Banyutus pulverulentus

Banyutus pulverulentus (Rambur, 1842) Myrmeleon pulverulentus Rambur, 1842: 392. Type Locality: South (or southern) Africa (locality unknown), not pre-partition India, Bengal [Bengale]. Formicaleo atomarius Navás, 1912h: 64. Type Locality: South Africa (Blocksberg: Johannesburg). Formicaleo natalicus Navás, 1912g: 247. Type Locality: South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal: Natal). World distribution: South Africa [not India] (Rambur 1842: 392; Navás 1912h: 65; Stange 2004: 132; Oswald 2024a). Note: No confirmed occurrence records are known from India. All Indian occurrence citations (e.g., Rambur 1842: 392; Walker 1853: 336; Ghosh & Sen 1977: 312; Ghosh 1984: 25; Ghosh 1999: 137; Chandra & Sharma 2010: 18) appear to trace back to the apparently incorrect original type locality statement “Bengale” (a region in eastern pre-partition India) for Myrmeleon pulverulentus by Rambur (1842: 392). Stange (2004: 132) synonymized two nominal species from South Africa (Formicaleo atomarius and F. natalicus) under pulverulentus, which strongly implies that the true type locality of pulverulentus lies somewhere in South (or southern) Africa. The species is excluded from the Indian fauna on this basis.