Corydalidae

The eastern dobsonfly, Corydalus cornutus, is the most well-known North American species among the dobsonflies. These genera have distinctive elongated mandibles in males and form the subfamily Corydalinae. The genera in which the males have normal mandibles, called fishflies, form the subfamily Chauliodinae. The summer fishfly, Chauliodes pectinicornis, is perhaps the best-known of these in North America; its immense mating swarms in the Upper Mississippi River region fill the air on a few summer nights each year much like mayflies in certain regions of Europe, leaving millions of carcasses to be cleaned up the next day. File:Chauliodes rastricornis P1400671a.jpg|Chauliodes pectinicornis File:CorydalisAsiaticaParkerCoward.jpg|Acanthacorydalis asiatica ==Taxonomy==

The family is divided into two subfamilies, the Corydalinae and the Chauliodinae. Classification and identification is based on external morphology and at the species level using male genitalia. These 36 genera belong to the family Corydalidae: • Acanthacorydalis c g • Anachauliodes c g • Apochauliodes c g • Archichauliodes c g • Chauliodes Latreille, 1796 i c g b – fishflies • Chauliosialis c g • Chloronia Banks, 1908 i c g • Chloroniella c g • Corydalites c g • Corydalus Latreille, 1802 i c g b – dobsonflies • Cratocorydalopsis c g • Cretochaulus c g • Ctenochauliodes c g • Dysmicohermes Munroe, 1953 i c g b • Eochauliodes c g • Jurochauliodes c g • Lithocorydalus c g • Madachauliodes c g • Neochauliodes c g • Neohermes Banks, 1908 i c g b • Neoneuromus c g • Neurhermes c g • Nevromus c g • Nigronia Banks, 1908 i c g b – dark fishflies • Nothochauliodes c g • Orohermes Evans, 1984 i c g b • Parachauliodes c g • Platychauliodes c g • Platyneuromus Weele, 1909 i c g • Protochauliodes Weele, 1909 i c g b • Protohermes van-der Weele, 1907 g • Puri c g • Taeniochauliodes c g Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net ==Footnotes==