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Lehman had no FDIC-insured accounts. So it shouldn't be included in a list of failures managed by the FDIC, because it wasn't.

The liquidation of Lehman was handled by the Treasury department (and a bankruptcy court), not the FDIC, and Congressional involvement was necessary to pass a bill to finance the resulting "bailout". The FDIC maintains its own fund to pay back depositors.

It might sound like a pointless technicality, but it's really not. It would be like asking why an NHSTA report doesn't include plane crashes.

Well, they're visualizing a dataset from the FDIC. So, it's more like it doesn't count due to a technicality. It's not clear to me if there's an "official" dataset that includes all non-FDIC institutions.

For this dataset, yes. It's only got deposit banks (afaict)