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. (
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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. (
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