Chaetoleon pumilis

Chaetoleon pumilis (Burmeister, 1839) Myrmecoleon pumilis Burmeister, 1839: 995. Type locality: United States (South Carolina [SüdKarolina]). Myrmeleon angusticollis Rambur, 1842: 399. Type locality: United States (eastern, locality unknown), not India (Mumbai [Bombay)]. World distribution: United States [not India] (Burmeister 1839: 995; Oswald 2024a). Note: All known Indian occurrence citations (e.g., Rambur 1842: 399; Walker 1853: 363; Ghosh & Sen 1977: 311; Ghosh 1983a: 84; Chandra et al. 2011: 158) appear to trace back to the incorrect original type locality statement of “ Bombay ” for Myrmeleon angusticollis Rambur, 1842. The true type locality of angusticollis is now believed to be somewhere in the eastern United States, where native specimens conspecific with its holotype have been confirmed (Stange 1970: 101).