Subfamily Chauliodinae - Fishflies

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Corydalid at Lights - Chauliodes pectinicornis

Vella americana or another species? - Chauliodes rastricornis

Nigronia fasciata in New England? - Nigronia fasciata

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Megaloptera (Alderflies, Dobsonflies, and Fishflies)

Family Corydalidae (Dobsonflies and Fishflies)

Subfamily Chauliodinae (Fishflies)

Explanation of Names

Chauliodinae Davis, 1903

Numbers

6 genera and 19 spp. in our area;(1)(2) ~130 spp. worldwide.

1. Chauliodes — 2 eastern US species (pectinicornis, rastricornis)

2. Dysmicohermes — 2 western US species (disjunctus, ingens)

3. Neohermes — 6 species, 3 eastern US (angusticollis, concolor, matheri) and 3 western US (californicus, inexpectatus, filicornis)

4. Nigronia — 2 eastern species (fasciata, serricornis)

5. Orohermes — 1 western US species (crepusculus)

6. Protochauliodes — 6 western US species (aridus, cascadius, minimus, montivagus, simplus, spenceri)

Print References

Liu X., Wang Y., Shih C., Ren D., Yang D. (2012) Early Evolution and Historical Biogeography of Fishflies (Megaloptera: Chauliodinae): Implications from a Phylogeny Combining Fossil and Extant Taxa. PLoS ONE 7(7): e40345. (Full Text)

Wang Y., Liu X., Winterton S.L., Yang D. (2012). The First Mitochondrial Genome for the Fishfly Subfamily Chauliodinae and Implications for the Higher Phylogeny of Megaloptera. Mans B.J., ed., PLoS ONE, 7(10):e47302. (Full Text)

Internet References

Key to the World Genera of Chauliodinae.

Works Cited

1.	Species catalog of the Neuroptera, Megaloptera, and Raphidioptera of America North of Mexico Penny N.D., Adams P.A., Stange L.A. 1997. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 50: 39‒114.

2.	A New Fishfly Species (Megaloptera: Corydalidae: Neohermes Banks) Discovered from North America by a Systematic Revision Xingyue Liu & Shaun L. Winterton. 2016. PLoS ONE 11(2): e0148319.

Contributed by v belov on 5 February, 2013 - 1:06pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, PaleoJon
Last updated 20 May, 2023 - 8:57pm

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