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Alderflies, Dobsonflies, and Fishflies
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Alderflies, Dobsonflies, and Fishflies

Megaloptera

Megaloptera is an order of insects. It contains the alderflies, dobsonflies and fishflies, and there are about 300 known species.

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2 branches of this order, most-observed first

Dobsonflies and Fishflies

familyCorydalidae

Modern and Ancestral Alderflies

familySialidae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47864.