Corydasialidae Wichard, Chatterton & Ross, 2005

Martins, Caleb C., Ardila-Camacho, Adrian, Rivera-Gasperín, Sara Lariza, Oswald, John D., Liu, Xingyue & Contreras-Ramos, Atilano, 2022, A world checklist of extant and extinct species of Megaloptera (Insecta: Neuropterida), European Journal of Taxonomy 812 (1), pp. 1-93 : 61

Family † Corydasialidae Wichard, Chatterton & Ross, 2005

† Corydasialidae Wichard, Chatterton & Ross, 2005: 279 [type genus: † Corydasialis Wichard, Chatterton & Ross, 2005: 279 ]. — Archibald & Makarkin 2005: 570. — Liu et al. 2017: 572.

Taxonomic notes

Wichard et al. (2005) described the family † Corydasialidae in Megaloptera based on a single species, † Corydasialis inexspectata , from the Baltic amber of Kaliningrad, Russia (Eocene). Corydasialids have been treated as belonging to either the Megaloptera (e.g., Wichard et al. 2005) or the Neuroptera (e.g., Liu et al. 2017). In the present work, we follow Liu et al. (2017) in treating corydasialids as chrysopoid neuropterans. Currently † Corydasialidae contains four extinct genera, † Cratochrysa Martins Neto, 1994 , † Megalopteroneura Liu, Lu & Zhang, 2017 , † Corydasialis Wichard, Chatterton & Ross, 2005 , and † Ypresioneura Archibald & Makarkin, 2015 , but only the two later have ever been placed in Megaloptera .