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Corydalus sp.
Corydalus is a genus of large flying insects in the Corydalidae family, commonly known as dobsonflies. They are endemic to North, Central and South America and there are about 35 known species. Members of the genus have wing lengths of up to 85 millimetres. This one was seen on a sheet under a night light in mountain terrane at Rancho Naturalista.
Primary pre-montane Caribbean slope rainforest at 2970ft (900m)
Spotted on Jul 14, 2013
Submitted on Oct 24, 2013
6 Comments
Thanks bayucca. I thought I recognized this fellow! Merged the spottings and copied your comment over.
thanks ForestDragon and Doren B...
copied from duplicated spotting...
I think this is a male dobsonfly from the genus Corydalus similar to Corydalus cornutus, the Eastern Dobsonfly from US. Unfortunately there is not much info about the ones from Costa Rica.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corydalus_c......
Please, verify. I might be wrong, the antennae are some kind shorter than usually seen (?). At first sight it reminds me also to a fishfly...
Corydalus sp., same one like this I would say...
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/435...
This is one of the Corydalinae (Dobsonflies) but I am not familiar with the species in your area. You may want to look at this reference:
http://tolweb.org/images/Corydalinae/129...
or search for corydalus or corydalinae here at Project Noah.
Beautiful male Dobsonfly! Not sure of the species though. :( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobsonfly