Palpares Rambur, 1842 Diagnosis. Mandibles strong, equipped with at least 3 pairs of teeth; mesothoracic spiracles borne on a very short tubercle; thoracic setiferous processes prominent, first pair of mesothoracic setiferous processes provided with a forward directed tuft of setae; VIII abdominal sternite with large odontoid processes; IX abdominal sternite with fossoria (2 nd and 3 rd instars only). Examined species. P. libelluloides (Linnaeus, 1764). Comments. The genus Palpares is considered polyphyletic (Mansell 1992, 2004) thus the above mentioned diagnosis is exclusively based on the type species: P. libelluloides, that is also the only member of the genus whose larva is sufficiently described (Brauer 1854). According to the present definition, Palpares comprises over 67 species widely distributed in the Old World, across the Afrotropical (the main center of distribution), Palaearctic and Oriental regions.

Published as part of Badano, Davide & Pantaleoni, Roberto Antonio, 2014, The larvae of European Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera), pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 3762 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3762.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4909357