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Dobsonflies and Fishflies
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Dobsonflies and Fishflies

Corydalidae

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.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first

Fishflies

subfamilyChauliodinae

Dobsonflies

subfamilyCorydalinae

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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 47863.