Nemopteridae
Nemopteridae, the spoonwings, are a family of neuropteran insects. They are also called thread-winged antlions. They are found in the Ethiopian, Palearctic, Australasian and Neotropical realms but absent in North America (though a fossil has been found in Colorado).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. 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. Taxonomy There are two distinct subfamilies in the family Nemopteridae: *Subfamily Crocinae, mostly nocturnal and crepuscular species with often a narrow habitat preference. They are found in arid d ...
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Nemoptera
''Nemoptera'' is a Palearctic genus of insects of the spoonwing family, Nemopteridae. All species are diurnal with an exclusively floral diet, preferring to fly in open spaces in full sunshine while visiting flowers. They can be recognized by their very long hind wing prolongations. Taxonomy The genus contains seven species, three of which are found in Europe. * '' Nemoptera aegyptiaca'' Rambur, 1842 * '' Nemoptera alba'' Olivier, 1811 * '' Nemoptera bipennis'' (Illiger, 1812), syn. ''Nemoptera lusitanica'' (Leach, 1815) * '' Nemoptera coa'' (Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ..., 1758) * '' Nemoptera orientalis'' Olivier in Bonnaterre et al., 1828 * '' Nemoptera rachelii'' U. Aspöck et al., 2006 * '' Nemoptera sinuata'' Olivier, 1811 The African species ...
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Neuroptera
The insect order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, mantidflies, antlions, and their relatives. The order consists of some 6,000 species. Neuroptera can be grouped together with the Megaloptera and Raphidioptera in the unranked taxon Neuropterida (once known as Planipennia) including: alderflies, fishflies, dobsonflies, and snakeflies. Adult Neuropterans have four membranous wings, all about the same size, with many veins. They have chewing mouthparts, and undergo complete metamorphosis. Neuropterans first appeared during the Permian period, and continued to diversify through the Mesozoic era. During this time, several unusually large forms evolved, especially in the extinct family Kalligrammatidae, often called "the butterflies of the Jurassic" for their large, patterned wings. Anatomy and biology Neuropterans are soft-bodied insects with relatively few specialized features. They have large lateral compound eyes, and may or may not also have oce ...
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Croce (genus)
Croce may refer to: * Croce (family), a noble family in the Republic of Ragusa * ''Croce'' (genus), a genus of lacewings in the family Nemopteridae * Croce (surname) * Croce, Haute-Corse, a municipality in the Haute-Corse department, France * Croce, a parish of Menaggio in the Province of Como, Italy See also *Santa Croce (other) is Italian for 'Holy Cross' and may refer to: * Santa Croce (Venice), one of the six (districts) of Venice, Italy. * The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross ( it, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, italic=no) in Rome, Italy. * Many ch ...

Burmese Amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The amber is of significant palaeontological interest due to the diversity of flora and fauna contained as inclusions, particularly arthropods including insects and arachnids but also birds, lizards, snakes, frogs and fragmentary dinosaur remains. The amber has been known and commercially exploited since the first century AD, and has been known to science since the mid-nineteenth century. Research on the deposit has attracted controversy due to its alleged role in funding internal conflict in Myanmar and hazardous working conditions in the mines where it is collected. Geological context, depositional environment and age The amber is found within the Hukawng Basin, a large Cretaceous-Cenozoic sedimentary basin within northern Myanmar. The s ...
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Chasmoptera Hutti (45962054442)
''Chaemoptera'' is a genus in the Nemopteridae (the spoonwing family of insects). The genus, which consists of three species, is wholly confined to Western Australia. The genus was first described by William Forsell Kirby William Forsell Kirby (14 January 1844 – 20 November 1912) was an English entomologist and folklorist. Life He was born in Leicester. He was the eldest son of Samuel Kirby, who was a banker. He was educated privately, and became interested ... in 1900, and the type species is '' Chasmoptera huttii''. A key feature of ''Chasmoptera'' is the "elaborate extended hindwings, with apical dilations arranged in a “ribbon” or “spoon” shape". Description Kirby describes the genus as follows (but only lists the one species, '' Chasmoptera huttii''): Later work uses both wing and genital morphology to distinguish both species and genera. Species *'' Chasmoptera huttii'' (Westwood, 1848) *'' Chasmoptera mathewsi'' Koch, 1967 *'' Chasmoptera superba'' Til ...
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