Megaloptera

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Mandibulata
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Holometabola
Superordo: Neuropterida
Ordo:
Familiae (2): Corydalidae – Sialidae

Megaloptera Latreille, 1802: 289

• Megaloptera comes from Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas), meaning "large", and πτερόν (pterón), meaning "wing", in reference to the large, clumsy wings of these insects^[1].

• Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. F. Dufart, Paris, pp. i-xii + 13–467 [+ 1 (errata)]. BHL Reference page. 

• de Andrade, I.C.P., Fernandes, A.S. & Krolow, T.K. 2020. The Megaloptera (Insecta) of Tocantins State, Brazil. Zootaxa 4816(1): 144–148. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.1.12 Reference page. 
• Archibald, S.B. & Makarkin, V.N. 2015. The second genus and species of the extinct neuropteroid family Corydasialidae, from early Eocene McAbee, British Columbia, Canada: do they belong to Megaloptera? Zootaxa 4040(5): 569–575. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.5.5. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Liu, X., Price, B.W., Hayashi, F., de Moor, F. & Yang, D. 2014. Revision of the Megaloptera (Insecta: Neuropterida) of Madagascar. Zootaxa 3796(2): 320–336. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3796.2.5 Reference page. 
• Liu, X. 2019. Megaloptera of Canada. Pp 393–396 In Langor, D.W. & Sheffield, C.S. (eds.). The Biota of Canada – A Biodiversity Assessment. Part 1: The Terrestrial Arthropods. ZooKeys 819: 520 pp. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.819.23948 Reference page. 
• Martins, C.C., Ardila-Camacho, A., Rivera-Gasperín, S.L., Oswald, J.D., Liu, X. & Contreras-Ramos, A. 2022. A world checklist of extant and extinct species of Megaloptera (Insecta: Neuropterida). European Journal of Taxonomy 812(1): 1–93. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.812.1727 . Reference page. 
• Shcherbakov, D.E. 2013. Permian ancestors of Hymenoptera and Raphidioptera. ZooKeys 358: 45–67. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.358.6289 . Reference page. 
• Villagomez, F. & Contreras-Ramos, A. 2017. First records of adult feeding in Megaloptera (Corydalidae, Corydalinae) from Mexico and their possible relationship with the increase in life span. Zootaxa 4341(2): 287–290. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.2.11. Reference page. 

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1. ↑ https://www2.feis.unesp.br/cahf/ehome/eH_Imag/e_megaloptera/meg_r.php