Kingdom Animalia Suborder Hemerobiiformia Scientific name Dilaridae Rank Family | Class Insecta Superfamily Mantispoidea Phylum Arthropoda Order Neuroptera | |
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Similar Neuroptera, Berothidae, Ithonidae, Sisyridae, Osmylidae | ||
The pleasing lacewings, Dilaridae, are a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera.
They were formerly placed in the superfamily Hemerobioidea. But it seems that the Dilaridae are a rather basal member of the Mantispoidea, which includes among others the mantidflies (Mantispidae), whose peculiar apomorphies belie that their relationship to the pleasing lacewings is apparently not at all distant.
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