AY Honors/Insect/Neuroptera

{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Net-winged insects | image = Lacewing3035.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Lacewing | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Arthropoda | classis = Insecta | superordo = Endopterygota | ordo = Neuroptera | ordo_authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | subdivision_ranks = Superfamilies | subdivision = see text

The insect order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, mantidflies, antlions, and their relatives (the group that was once known as the Planipennia). The order contains some 4000 species. Traditionally, the order also included alderflies, fishflies, dobsonflies, and snakeflies, but these are now generally considered to be separate orders (the Megaloptera and Raphidioptera). Sometimes the name Neuropteroidea (syn. Neuropterida)^& is used to refer to these three orders as a group.

The adults of this order possess four membranous wings, with the forewings and hindwings about the same size, and with many veins. They have chewing mouthparts, and undergo complete metamorphosis. Most are predatory, but a few exceptions occur.

Taxonomy

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Partial phylogeny of the order.^&

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Life cycle of lacewings

Superfamily Coniopterygoidea
- Family Coniopterygidae: dustywings
Superfamily Ithonioidea
- Family Ithonidae: moth lacewings
Superfamily Hemerobioidea
- Family Chrysopidae: green lacewings, stinkflies
- Family Dilaridae: pleasing lacewings
- Family Hemerobiidae: brown lacewings
- Family Polystoechotidae: giant Lacewings
- Family Psychopsidae
Superfamily Osmyloidea
- Family Osmylidae
- Family Neurorthidae
- Family Sisyridae: spongillaflies
Superfamily Mantispoidea
- Family Berothidae: beaded lacewings
- Family Mantispidae: mantidflies
Superfamily Myrmeleontoidea
- Family Palaeoleontidae
- Family Ascalaphidae: ascalaphids, owlflies
- Family Myrmeleontidae: ant-lions
- Family Nemopteridae: spoonwings
- Family Nymphidae