Summer Fishfly
Chauliodes pectinicornis
Summer Fishfly: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/11744
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Description

Antennae are pectinate (comb-like). Head and pronotum have yellow markings on dark background. Compare Spring Fishfly (C. rastricornis).

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Chauliodes pectinicornis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Megaloptera
Family: Corydalidae
Genus: Chauliodes
Species:
C. pectinicornis
Binomial name
Chauliodes pectinicornis
Synonyms
  • Hemerobius pectinicornis Linnaeus, 1763
  • Hemerobius virginiensis Drury, 1773

Chauliodes pectinicornis known as Summer fishfly, is a species of fishfly from North America.

Distribution

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C. pectinicornis has a wide distribution in the eastern Canada and United States, from Maine in the north-east to Alachua, Liberty and Santa Rosa counties in Florida to the south-east, and as far west as Kansas.[1]

Taxonomic history

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C. pectinicornis was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1763 work Centuria Insectorum.[2]

Synonyms: Linnaeus 1763

Hemerobius pectinicornis, Hemerobius virginiensis, Semblis pectinicornis, Chauliodes virginiensis.

Ecology

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C. pectinicornis has a commensal relationship with Plecoptcracoluthus downesi larvae, which undergo their entire life cycle including pupation on the fishfly's mesothorax.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Lionel Stange (November 20, 2000). "A Checklist and Bibliography of the Megaloptera and Neuroptera of Florida". Florida State Collection of Arthropods. Retrieved June 24, 2010.
  2. ^ "Detailed record for Chauliodes pectinicornis (Linnaeus, 1763)". Essig Museum of Entomology Species Lists. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved June 16, 2010.
  3. ^ Benedict, P. R.; Fisher, G. T. (17 January 1972). "Commensalistic Relationships between Plecopteracoluthus downesi (Diptera: Chironomidae) and Chauliodes pectinicornis (Megaloptera: Corydalidae)2". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 65 (1): 109–111. doi:10.1093/aesa/65.1.109.
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