Museum workers pronounce dobsonfly found in China, largest aquatic insect
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 09:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Workers with the Insect Museum of West China, who were recently given several very large dragon-fly looking insects, with long teeth, by locals in a part of Sichuan, have declared it, a giant dobsonfly the largest known aquatic insect in the world alive today. The find displaces the previous record holder, the South American helicopter damselfly, by just two centimeters.