Neuroptera

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Noun1.Neuroptera - an order of insects including: lacewingsNeuroptera - an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies
order Neuroptera
animal order - the order of animals
class Hexapoda, class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species
neuropteran, neuropteron, neuropterous insect - insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins
family Myrmeleontidae, Myrmeleontidae - antlions
Chrysopidae, family Chrysopidae - green lacewings
family Hemerobiidae, Hemerobiidae - brown lacewings
Megaloptera, suborder Megaloptera - in some classifications considered a separate order: alderflies; dobsonflies; snake flies
family Mantispidae, Mantispidae - mantispids
family Sisyridae, Sisyridae - an arthropod family of the order Neuroptera that includes spongeflies
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Die Neuropteren Europas, Eine zusammenfassende Darstellung der Systematik, Okologie und Chorologie der Neuropteroidea (Megaloptera, Raphidioptera, Planipennia) Europes, Vol 2, pp.
Some Behavioral Observations on Larvae of Antlion, Myrmeleon formicarius Linnaeus, 1767 (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) in Forest and Non-Forest Areas of Kahramanmaras Province, Turkey
Aphidophagous Crysopid and Hemerobiid (Neuropteroidea) subguilds in different maize fields: influence of vegetational diversity on sub guild structure.
Hemerobiidae (Neuroptera) en la region del medio-oeste del estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil
Hennig accepted the Holometabola as a monophyletic group, and provided evidence that supported many of the groupings recognized by earlier (Carmean et al., 1992; Pashley et al., 1993; Chalwatzis et al., 1996) and more recent (Whiting, 2002, 2004; Beutel and Pohl, 2006; Wiegmann et al., 2009) molecular phylogenies, especially the clades Neuropteroidea, Coleopteroidea (possibly including the Strepsiptera), Hymenoptera, Mecopteroidea, Antliophora (possibly including the Siphonaptera), and Amphiesmenoptera.
Evidence for an earliest late carboniferous divergence time and the early larval ecology and diversification of major Holometabola lineages

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