Order Megaloptera

Common names: dobsonflies, fishflies, alderflies

• Moderate- to large-sized insects
• hind wings larger than front and folded fanwise at rest
• antennae long and filiform, serrate, or pectinate; mouth parts chewing
• ocelli present or absent
• tarsi 5 segmented

Similar looking orders:
Neuroptera lack the anal fold in the hind wing
Plecoptera have caudal cerci and 3-segmented tarsi.

• Megaloptera - from Cartage
• Megaloptera - Schlammfliegen
• FAMU on the Web
  • Florida Megaloptera maintained by FAMU