Dilaridae is a family of
Euneuropteran insects in the order
Neuroptera, known as "pleasing lacewings". They were formerly placed in the paraphyletic
superfamily Hemerobioidea
Hemerobiidae is a family of Neuropteran insects commonly known as brown lacewings, comprising about 500 species in 28 genera. Most are yellow to dark brown, but some species are green. They are small; most have forewings 4–10 mm long (som ...
, though the group is currently placed in the monophyletic superfamily Dilaroidea as a sister group to
Mantispoidea and
Osmyloidea
Osmyloidea is a euneuropteran superfamily in the lacewing order Neuroptera sister to the superfamilies Dilaroidea, Mantispoidea, and the clade Neoneuroptera. The superfamily includes three living families and two extinct families described ...
.
There are about 9 genera and at least 100 described species in Dilaridae.
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Genera
These genera belong to the family Dilaridae:
* '' Berothella'' [
* †'' Cascadilar'' - (Priabonian ]Baltic amber
The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, called Baltic amber or succinite. It was produced sometime during the Eocene epoch, but exactly when is controversial. It has been estimated that these forests created more than ...
,)[
* †'' Cretadilar'' - ( Cenomanian. ]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 ...
, Myanmar)[
* †'' Cretodilar'' - (Cenomanian ]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 ...
, Myanmar)[
* '' Dilar'' ][
* '' Lidar''
* '']Nallachius
''Nallachius'' is a genus of pleasing lacewings in the family Dilaridae
Dilaridae is a family of Euneuropteran insects in the order Neuroptera, known as "pleasing lacewings". They were formerly placed in the paraphyletic superfamily Hemerobi ...
'' [
* '' Neonallachius'' ][
Other genera previously considered to belong to family as the subfamily Cretanallachiinae have subsequently been moved to ]Kalligrammatidae
Kalligrammatidae, sometimes known as kalligrammatids or kalligrammatid lacewings, is a family of extinct insects in the order Neuroptera (lacewings) that contains twenty genera and a number of species. The family lived from the Middle Jurassic t ...
.
References
External links
Hemerobiiformia
Neuroptera families
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