Nemopteridae

Nemopteridae

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Neuroptera
Suborder:	Planipennia
Family:	Nemopteridae
Genera
Afghanocroce Amerocroce Anacroce Apocroce Austrocroce Barbibucca Brevistoma Carnarviana Chasmoptera Concroce Croce Derhynchia Dielocroce Halter Halterina Josandreva Knersvlaktia Laurhervasia Lertha Moranida Necrophylus Nemeura Nemia Nemopistha Nemoptera Nemopterella Palmipenna Parasicyoptera Pastranaia Pterocroce Savigniella Semirhynchia Sicyoptera Stenorrhachus Thysanocroce Tjederia Veurise

Spoonwings or Nemopteridae are a family of neuropteran insects. They are also called thread-winged Antlions. They are found in the Ethiopian, Palearctic, Australasian and Neotropical regions but absent in North America (though a fossil has been found in Colorado).^[1]

Pinned museum specimen - Muséum of Toulouse

Their flight is delicate and they have a circling flight to avoid walls when they are trapped indoors. The long streamer is conspicuous when the insects are flying and these are the elongated and spatulate hindwings.

Male Nemopterids have a bulla on the wing usually along the margin or wing base that is used to disperse pheromone.^[1]

Taxonomy

There are two distinct subfamilies in the Nemopteridae family:

Crocinae, mostly nocturnal and crepuscular species with often a narrow habitat preference. They are found in arid desert zones and have a wide distribution along the southern fringes of the west Palearctic and Western Asia, as well as in dry Neotropical, Afrotropical, and Australian areas. Includes the following genera:
- Josandreva
- Pterocroce
Nemopterinae, diurnal, with a greater diversity. Genera include:
- Barbibucca
- Lertha
- Nemoptera
- Nemopterella

References

1 2 Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd edition. Volume 3, Insects, edited by Michael Hutchins, Arthur V. Evans, Rosser W. Garrison, and Neil Schlager. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2003.

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Insecta orders

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
(unranked): Pancrustacea
Subphylum: Hexapoda

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Palaeoptera

Ephemeropteroidea	Ephemeroptera (mayflies)

Odonatoptera	Odonata (dragonflies, damselflies)

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Dictyoptera	Blattodea (cockroaches, termites) Mantodea (mantises)

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Paraneoptera *	Psocodea (barklice, lice) Thysanoptera (thrips) Hemiptera (cicadas, aphids, true bugs)

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basal

Hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants, bees)

Neuropteroidea

Coleopterida	Strepsiptera (twisted-winged parasites) Coleoptera (beetles)

Neuropterida	Raphidioptera (snakeflies) Megaloptera (alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies) Neuroptera (net-winged insects: lacewings, mantidflies, antlions)

Panorpida
(Mecopterida)

Antliophora	Mecoptera (scorpionflies) + Siphonaptera (fleas) Diptera (gnats, mosquitoes, flies)

Amphiesmenoptera	Trichoptera (caddisflies) Lepidoptera (moths, butterflies)

Four most speciose orders are marked in bold

Italic are paraphyletic groups

Based on Sasaki et al. (2013)

Extinct

Alienoptera Archodonata Blattoptera Caloneurodea Campylopteridae Carbotriplurida Coxoplectoptera Diaphanopterodea Eoblattodea Eocoronidae Eudiaphanoptera Erasipteridae Gerarus Geroptera Glosselytrodea Heraridea Hypoperlida Lapeyriidae Meganisoptera (griffinflies or "giant dragonflies") Megasecoptera Mendozachorista Miomoptera Monura Palaeodictyoptera Paoliida Permoplecoptera Protanisoptera Protelytroptera Protephemerida Protodiptera Protorthoptera Protozygoptera Pseudopulex Rhyniognatha Syntonoptera Titanoptera Triadophlebioptera

Extinct incertae sedis families and genera are marked in italic

Wikispecies

Extant Neuroptera families

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Superorder: Endopterygota

Basal

Nevrorthidae

Suborder Hemerobiiformia

Ithonioidea	Ithonidae (moth lacewings) Polystoechotidae (giant lacewings)

Osmyloidea	Osmylidae (osmylids)

Chrysopoidea	Chrysopidae (green lacewings)

Hemerobioidea	Hemerobiidae (brown lacewings)

Coniopterygoidea	Coniopterygidae (dustywings) Sisyridae (spongeflies or spongillaflies)

Mantispoidea	Dilaridae (pleasing lacewings) Mantispidae (mantidflies) Rhachiberothidae (thorny lacewings) Berothidae (beaded lacewings)

Suborder Myrmeleontiformia

Nemopteroidea	Psychopsidae (silky lacewings) Nemopteridae (spoonwings)

Myrmeleontoidea	Nymphidae (split-footed lacewings) Myrmeleontidae (antlions) Ascalaphidae (owlflies)

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