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Fishfly? - Chauliodes
Copyright © 2009 Naomi Smith

Fishfly? - Chauliodes
Brighton, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada
June 29, 2009
Size: 2 inches app.
After looking at pictures all day, I am still unable to decide whether this is a fishfly or dobsonfly. Could someone please confirm which one?
Thanks in advance.
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Contributed by Naomi Smith on 30 June, 2009 - 8:27pm
Last updated 14 July, 2009 - 12:49am

Fishfly.
The wings don't come up all the way to the "shoulders" of a dobsonfly like on yours:



And also yours doesn't show either large mandible or gigantic mandibles. ;-)
… Ashley Bradford, 30 June, 2009 - 8:36pm login or register to post comments

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