Macronemurus A. Costa, 1855 Diagnosis. Mandibles relatively strong, equipped with 3 equidistant teeth; setae covering the pronotum disposed in parallel rows; mesothoracic spiracles cone-shaped, raised on tubercle; thoracic setiferous processes pedunculated; VIII abdominal sternite with odontoid processes; IX abdominal sternite with rastra bearing digging setae of comparable length, with a shorter internal pair. Examined species. M. appendiculatus (Latreille, 1807). Comments. A mainly afrotropical genus with few members in the Palaearctic and in India, Macronemurus comprises 34 species (Stange 2004). The preimaginal stages of this genus are undescribed, except for a not diagnostic description of the 1 st instar larva of M. appendiculatus (Insom et al. 1985).

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 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3762.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4909357