enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Dobsonfly - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobsonfly

    The origin of the word "dobsonfly" is unclear. John Henry Comstock used the term in reference to these insects in his 1897 book Insect Life, [1] but did not explain it. He also mentioned that anglers used the word "hellgrammite" for the aquatic larvae they used as bait, but the origin of this term is also unknown.

  3. Corydalidae - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.

  4. Megaloptera - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaloptera

    The Asian dobsonfly Acanthacorydalis fruhstorferi can have a wingspan of up to 21.6 cm (8.5 in), making it the largest aquatic insect in the world by this measurement. [ 3 ] Anatomy and life cycle

  5. Corydalus cornutus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corydalus_cornutus

    Eastern Dobsonfly (Corydalus cornutus) female. The adult dobsonfly is a large insect up to 140 millimetres long with a wingspan of up to 125 millimetres. [8] The female has short powerful mandibles of a similar size to those of the larva while the mandibles of the male are sickle-shaped and up to 40 millimetres long, half as long as the body. [1]

  6. Corydalus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corydalus

    Corydalus is a transliteration from the Greek κορδαλος (korúdalos) [3] meaning a crested lark or the flower, larkspur, apparently related to Greek corys (κορυς) a helmet crest. [4]

  7. Protohermes grandis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protohermes_grandis

    Protohermes grandis is a species of dobsonfly occurring in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, as well as South and North America, South Africa, Madagascar, Australia, and New Zealand. [1] They are closely related to P. immaculatus. [2] They are the smallest species of Protohermes fly. [2]

  8. Acanthacorydalis fruhstorferi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthacorydalis_fruhstorferi

    Acanthacorydalis fruhstorferi is a species of dobsonfly native to Vietnam and China. It holds the title of largest aquatic insect by wingspan according to the Guinness Book of World Records at 21.6 cm. [1] [2] The title formerly belonged to the Brazilian damselfly Microstigma rotundatum.

  9. Chloronia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloronia

    Chloronia is one of the three New World dobsonfly genera, the other two being Platyneuromus and Corydalus.Chloronia are easily distinguished by their bright yellow coloration with black spots and are present from Northern Mexico south to Eastern South America. [2]