Hemerobiiformia

Hemerobiiformia
Green lacewing
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Superorder: Endopterygota or Neuropterida
Order: Neuroptera
Suborder: Hemerobiiformia
Superfamilies

The Hemerobiiformia are a suborder of lacewing insects in the order Neuroptera. The phylogeny of the Neuroptera was explored in 2014 using mitochondrial DNA sequences. The results indicate that Hemerobiiformia is paraphyletic, meaning that not all the members of the clade are considered to belong to it, in particular since it would include all the Myrmeleontiformia, with which the Hemerobiiformia were traditionally contrasted. The broken-up group is shown in the cladogram:[1]

Neuroptera

Osmylidae (part of "Hemerobiiformia")



(part of "Hemerobiiformia")

Mantispidae (mantidflies)




Ithonidae (moth lacewings)



Chrysopidae (green lacewings)




Myrmeleontiformia

Nymphidae (split-footed lacewings)




Myrmeleontidae (antlions)



Ascalaphidae (owlflies)







References

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