Chauliosialis Ponomarenko, 1976

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Genus † Chauliosialis Ponomarenko, 1976

† Chauliosialis Ponomarenko, 1976: 431 . Type species. † Chauliosialis sukatshevae Ponomarenko, 1976: 431 (by original designation). stat. nov.

Taxonomic notes

The extinct genus † Chauliosialis contains one species – † Chauliosialis sukatshevae – which is known only from a single early instar larva preserved in Late Cretaceous Taymyr amber. Ponomarenko’s (1976) original description noted that the larval structure of † Chauliosialis differed significantly from that of all other known megalopteran larvae, for instance in possessing the smallest number of lateral abdominal filaments in the order Megaloptera . We treat † Chauliosialis here as Megaloptera incertae sedis, rather than as Corydalidae : Chauliodinae , as it has sometimes been treated in prior literature.

Included species

† Chauliosialis sukatshevae Ponomarenko, 1976

Palaearctic ( Russia) [Late Cretaceous].