Welcome to Afrotropical Megaloptera

This site aims to organise and present all the taxonomic and systematic information relating to the Afrotropical Megaloptera in a user-friendly & collaborative manner.

Platychauliodes pusillus holotype (BMNH)

Platychauliodes pusillus holotype (BMNH)

Platychauliodes pusillus specimen

Platychauliodes pusillus specimen

Platychauliodes thornei lectotype SAM-MEG-A000011 (SAMC)

Platychauliodes thornei lectotype SAM-MEG-A000011 (SAMC)

Platychauliodes thornei paralectotype SAM-MEG-A000011 (SAMC)

Platychauliodes thornei paralectotype SAM-MEG-A000011 (SAMC)

Recent Pages

Introduction to the Megaloptera

Benjamin Price - 2011-01-30

The insect order Megaloptera is considered one of the most primitive of the holometabolous insec
Leptosialis africana

Benjamin Price - 2011-01-29

Recently Added Literature

Revision of the fishfly genus Platychauliodes Esben-Petersen (Megaloptera: Corydalidae) endemic to South Africa

Benjamin Price - 2012-11-03
A review of the alderfly genus Leptosialis Esben-Petersen (Megaloptera, Sialidae) with description of a new species from South Africa

Benjamin Price - 2012-11-03
On wings of lace: phylogeny and Bayesian divergence time estimates of Neuropterida (Insecta) based on morphological and molecular data

Benjamin Price - 2012-11-03

Recently Added Taxon Descriptions

Leptosialis africana Esben-Petersen, 1920

Benjamin Price - 2011-01-29