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2 C. cornuta Linnaeus 



1758 Hemerobius cornutus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10. p.Sol 

 1767 Raphidia cornuta Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 12. p.916 

 1773 Hemerobius cornutus DeGeer, Mem. Ins. 3:559, pi. 27, fig.l 

 1781 Hemerobius cornutus Fabricius, Sp. Ins. 1:392; and 17S7. 



Mantissa Ins. 1:246 

 1788-93 Hemerobius cornutus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 13. 5:2039 

 1791-1825 C o ry dal i s cornuta Olivier, Encycl. Meth. 7:59 

 1793 Hemerobius cornutus Fabricius, Syst Ent. 2:81 

 1805-21 Corydalis cornuta Palisot, Ins. Neur. pl.l, fig.l 

 1807 Corydalis cornuta Latreille, Gen. Crust, and Ins. 3:199 

 1836-49 Corydalis cornuta Cuvier, Regne Animal, p. 14, pl.l04 

 1839 Corydalis cornuta Bunueister, Handb. Ent. 2:950 

 1848 Corydalis cornutus Holdemon, Acad. Bost. Jour. p.l58, pi. 1-3 

 1861 C or y d a 1 i s cornuta Hagen, Synopsis Neur. N. Am. p. 192; 



1863. Ent. Soc. Phila. Proc. 2:181 

 1863 Corydalis cornuta Walsh, Ent. Soc. Phila. Proc. 2:265 

 1892 Corydalis cornuta Banks, Am. Ent. Soc. Trans. 19:357 

 1901 Corydalis cornuta Needham, N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 47, p.550, 



pl.28 



General color luteo-fuscoue to luteo-cinereous: head large, 

 broad, sides convex, hind part with impressed yellow spots and 

 streaks surrounded by fuscous, each side with oblique yellow 

 stripe beneath; mandibles never concealed by the labrum, those 

 of the male normally much elongated and annulated; prothorax 

 much narrower than head, longer than broad, a light colored 

 hastate mark in the middle of the hind part, irregular yellow 

 flat points each side; legs brownish, knees, apex and incisions 

 of tarsi fuscous; antennae nearl}^ moniliform, long, fuscous; 

 superior pair of male appendages forcipated, infracted at the 

 apex, dolabriform; wings subcinereo-hyaline; veins darker, often 

 black, specially at their angles; C-Sc cross veins pale in middle; 

 cells mostly supplied with white dots, the costal ones each with 

 two white dots; in fore wing cross veins between all branches 

 of radius, about 25 to 35, media with three to four branches, and 

 Cuj with four to five accessories. Length to tip of wings about 

 75mm; alar expanse 100 to 140 mm. The size in both sexes is 

 variable. 



Quebec, New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, 

 Washington D, C, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota. 



