MEGALOPTERA
(alderflies)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
SIALIDAE alder flies					Family	2 subtaxa	11 images
	Sialis alderflies				Genus	2 subtaxa	11 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Order	MEGALOPTERA (alderflies)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

MEGALOPTERA is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Elliott, J.M.	1996	Freshwater Megaloptera and Neuroptera of Britain and Ireland: Keys to adults and larvae, and a review of their ecology	73pp
	Hackston, M.		Order Megaloptera key to British species
	Nilsson, A. (ed.)	1996	Aquatic Insects of North Europe	Aquatic Insects of North Europe, Two vols, 714pp, Apollo Books
	Plant, C.W.	1997	A Key to the Adults of British Lacewings and their allies	AIDGAP, 90pp, Field Studies Council
Larvae
	Chadd, R.	2007	Module 2: Rapid identification of species (and recognition of distinctive taxa)	https://www.fba.org.uk/identification-freshwater-invertebrates-species-level-distance-learning-course
	Gledhill, T. & Wallace, I.	2010	Module 9: advanced identification of miscellaneous taxa including Crustacea	https://www.fba.org.uk/identification-freshwater-invertebrates-species-level-distance-learning-course
	Nilsson, A. (ed.)	1996	Aquatic Insects of North Europe	Aquatic Insects of North Europe, Two vols, 714pp, Apollo Books

MEGALOPTERA (alderflies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for MEGALOPTERA (alderflies)

BioInfo

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for MEGALOPTERA (alderflies)

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