Family Sialidae Leach 1815 (alderfly)

Insecta - Megaloptera - Sialidae

Synonym: Dobbertiniidae Handlirsch 1920

Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172

Parent taxon: Nothomegaloptera according to M. S. Engel 2004

See also Ansorge 2001, Handlirsch 1939, Liu et al. 2015, Martins et al. 2022, Nel et al. 2004 and Willmann 1978

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Sharasialinae Sialinae

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Type: Sialis

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (1 collection)

• Pliocene of Germany (1)

• Miocene of Australia (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (3), Turkey (1)

• Eocene of Australia (1), France (1), Lithuania (1), the Russian Federation (6)

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (3)

• Jurassic of Germany (1), Mongolia (1)

• Triassic of Ukraine (1)

Total: 23 collections including 25 occurrences

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