Mantispoidea

Mantispoidea; Temporal range:
	Mantidfly
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Neuroptera
Clade:	Euneuroptera
Superfamily:	Mantispoidea; (Leach 1815)
Families
	Berothidae; †Dipteromantispidae; Mantispidae; †Mesoberothidae; Rhachiberothidae;

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. Mantispoidea contains three living families and one extinct family described from the fossil record.¹

Taxonomy

Berothidae (Late Jurassic–Present)
Mantispidae (Jurassic–Present)
†Dipteromantispidae (Cretaceous) (possibly nested within Mantispidae¹)
†Mesoberothidae (including †Mesithonidae) (Triassic)
Rhachiberothidae (Early Cretaceous–Recent)

References

Engel, M. S.; Winterton, S. L.; Breitkreuz, L. C. (2018). "Phylogeny and evolution of Neuropterida: where have wings of lace taken us?". Annual Review of Entomology. 63: 531–551. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043127.

External links

Media related to Mantispoidea at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Mantispoidea at Wikispecies

[Wings-1] Engel, M. S.; Winterton, S. L.; Breitkreuz, L. C. (2018). "Phylogeny and evolution of Neuropterida: where have wings of lace taken us?". Annual Review of Entomology. 63: 531–551. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043127.

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