Dipteromantispidae is an extinct family of

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 th ...

ns known from the Cretaceous period. Unlike other neuropterans, the family possesses only a single set of fully developed forewings, with the hindwings reduced to

haltere ''Halteres'' (; singular ''halter'' or ''haltere'') (from grc, ἁλτῆρες, weights held in the hands to give an impetus in leaping) are a pair of small club-shaped organs on the body of two orders of flying insects that provide infor ...

like structures. They are generally small in size (forewing length 2.6-7.9 mm) and possess

raptorial The term ''raptorial'' implies much the same as ''predatory'' but most often refers to modifications of an arthropod's foreleg that make it function for the grasping of prey while it is consumed, where the gripping surfaces are formed from the o ...

forelegs. They are considered to belong to

Mantispoidea Mantispoidea is a superfamily of euneuropteran insects in the order Neuroptera. The group was formerly placed in the paraphyletic suborder Hemerobiiformia, but is now considered sister to the superfamilies Dilaroidea and Osmyloidea. Mantispoi ...

, with an uncertain position within the clade.

Taxonomy

* †'' Burmodipteromantispa'' Liu et al. 2016 ** †''Burmodipteromantispa jiaxiaoae'' Liu et al. 2016

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,

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...

*†'' Enigmadipteromantispa'' Azar et al. 2020 ** †''Enigmadipteromantispa dimyi'' Azar et al. 2020 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian * †'' Dipteromantispa'' Makarkin et al. 2013 ** †''Dipteromantispa brevisubcosta'' Makarkin et al. 2013

Yixian Formation The Yixian Formation (; formerly transcribed as Yihsien Formation) is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans the late Barremian and early Aptian stages of the Early Cretaceous. It is known for its ex ...

, China,

Aptian The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is a subdivision of the Early or Lower Cretaceous Epoch or Series and encompasses the time from 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma to 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma (million years ago), a ...

* †'' Halteriomantispa'' Liu et al. 2016 ** †''Halteriomantispa grimaldii'' Liu et al. 2016 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian * †'' Jersimantispa'' Liu et al. 2016 ** †''Jersimantispa henryi'' Grimaldi 2000D. Grimaldi. 2000. A diverse fauna of Neuropterodea in amber from the Cretaceous of New Jersey. ''Studies on Fossils in Amber, with Particular Reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey'' 259-303 (Formerly ''Mantispidiptera henryi'')

New Jersey amber New Jersey Amber, sometimes called Raritan amber, is amber found in the Raritan and Magothy Formations of the Central Atlantic (Eastern) coast of the United States. It is dated to the Late Cretaceous, Turonian age, based on pollen analysis of th ...

Turonian The Turonian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the second age in the Late Cretaceous Epoch, or a stage in the Upper Cretaceous Series. It spans the time between 93.9 ± 0.8 Ma and 89.8 ± 1 Ma (million years ago). The Turonian is preceded by t ...

* †'' Kurtodipteromantispa'' Li & Liu, 2020Li, H.Y., Liu, X.Y. 2020
A new genus and species of Dipteromantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) from Cretaceous Burmese amber
Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 59 (1): 100–108 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian ** †''Kurtodipteromantispa xiai'' Li et al., 2020 ** †''Kurtodipteromantispa zhuodei'' Li & Liu, 2020 * †'' Mantispidiptera'' Grimaldi 2000 ** †''Mantispidiptera enigmatica'' Grimaldi 2000 New Jersey amber, Turonian * †'' Mantispidipterella'' Liu et al. 2016 ** †''Mantispidipterella longissima'' Liu et al. 2016 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian * †'' Paradipteromantispa'' Li et al., 2020'''' ** †''Paradipteromantispa polyneura'' Li et al., 2020 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian

References

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