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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Megaloptera |
| Family: | Corydalidae |
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The family Corydalidae contains the megalopterous insects known as dobsonflies and fishflies. Making up about one dozen genera, they occur primarily throughout the Northern Hemisphere, both temperate and tropical, and South America.
They are sizeable Megaloptera, with a body usually larger than 25 mm (1 inch). They often have long filamentous antennae, though in male fishflies they are characteristically feathered. Ocelli are present; the fourth tarsal segment is cylinder-shaped. The four large wings are translucent, smoky grey, or mixed, and the anterior pair is slightly longer than the posterior one.
The eastern dobsonfly, Corydalus cornutus, is the most well-known North American species among the dobsonflies. These genera have distinctive elongated mandibles in males and form the subfamily Corydalinae. The genera in which the males have normal mandibles, called fishflies, form the subfamily Chauliodinae. The summer fishfly, Chauliodes pectinicornis, is perhaps the best-known of these in North America; its immense mating swarms in the Upper Mississippi River region fill the air on a few summer nights each year much like mayflies in certain regions of Europe, leaving millions of carcasses to be cleaned up the next day.
The larvae are aquatic, active, armed with strong sharp mandibles, and breathe by means of abdominal branchial filaments. When full sized — which can take several years — they leave the water and spend a quiescent pupal stage on the land, in chambers dug under stones or logs, before metamorphosis into the sexually mature insect.
Genera
These 36 genera belong to the family Corydalidae:
- Acanthacorydalis
- Anachauliodes
- Apochauliodes
- Archichauliodes
- Chauliodes Latreille, 1796 (fishflies)
- Chauliosialis
- Chloronia Banks, 1908
- Chloroniella
- Corydalites
- Corydalus Latreille, 1802 (dobsonflies)
- Cratocorydalopsis
- Cretochaulus
- Ctenochauliodes
- Dysmicohermes Munroe, 1953
- Eochauliodes
- Jurochauliodes
- Lithocorydalus
- Madachauliodes
- Neochauliodes
- Neohermes Banks, 1908
- Neoneuromus
- Neurhermes
- Neuromus
- Nevromus
- Nigronia Banks, 1908 (dark fishflies)
- Nothochauliodes
- Orohermes Evans, 1984
- Parachauliodes
- Platychauliodes
- Platyneuromus Weele, 1909
- Protochauliodes Weele, 1909
- Protohermes van-der
- Protohermes Weele, 1907
- Puri
- Sinochauliodes
- Taeniochauliodes
Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
Footnotes
- See references in Haaramo (2008)
- "Corydalidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
- "Browse Corydalidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
- "Corydalidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
- "Corydalidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
References
External links
- Informative Corydalidae video
Media related to Corydalidae at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Corydalidae at Wikispecies
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