Nevrorthidae

The Nevrorthidae - often incorrectly spelled "Neurorthidae" - are a small family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera. They are a living fossil.

They were at one time placed in the Osmyloidea, with the Osmylidae and the spongillaflies (Sisyridae) as their closest relatives, but nowadays they are considered to be the most ancient lineage of living lacewings. Sometimes they are placed in a suborder Nevrorthiformia, but the quite basal position of the family is probably better expressed by placing them directly in the Neuroptera, without assigning the subordinal rank.^[1]

Apart from the mere three living genera, the fossil Rophalis from the Eocene has been described.^[2]

Footnotes

References

• Engel, Michael S. & Grimaldi, David A. (2007): The neuropterid fauna of Dominican and Mexican amber (Neuropterida, Megaloptera, Neuroptera). American Museum Novitates 3587: 1-58. PDF fulltext
• Haaramo, Mikko (2008): Mikko's Phylogeny Archive: Neuroptera. Version of 2008-MAR-11. Retrieved 2008-APR-27.

Insecta orders
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda (unranked): Pancrustacea Subphylum: Hexapoda
Extant Monocondylia Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) D i c o n d y l i a Apterygota * Thysanura (Zygentoma) (silverfish, firebrats) P t e r y g o t a Palaeoptera Ephemeropteroidea Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonatoptera Odonata (dragonflies, damselflies) N e o p t e r a Polyneoptera Plecoptera (stoneflies) Dermaptera (earwigs) Embioptera (webspinners) Phasmatodea (stick and leaf insects) Notoptera (ice-crawlers, gladiators) Orthoptera (crickets, wetas, grasshoppers, locusts) Zoraptera (angel insects) Dictyoptera Blattodea (cockroaches, termites) Mantodea (mantises) E u m e t a b o l a Paraneoptera * Psocodea (barklice, lice) Thysanoptera (thrips) Hemiptera (cicadas, aphids, true bugs) E n d o p t e r y g o t a basal Hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants, bees) Neuropteroidea Coleopterida Strepsiptera (twisted-winged parasites) Coleoptera (beetles) Neuropterida Raphidioptera (snakeflies) Megaloptera (alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies) Neuroptera (net-winged insects: lacewings, mantidflies, antlions) Panorpida (Mecopterida) Antliophora Mecoptera (scorpionflies) + Siphonaptera (fleas) Diptera (gnats, mosquitoes, flies) Amphiesmenoptera Trichoptera (caddisflies) Lepidoptera (moths, butterflies) Four most speciose orders are marked in bold Italic are paraphyletic groups Based on Sasaki et al. (2013)
Extinct Alienoptera Archodonata Blattoptera Caloneurodea Campylopteridae Carbotriplurida Coxoplectoptera Diaphanopterodea Eoblattodea Eocoronidae Eudiaphanoptera Erasipteridae Gerarus Geroptera Glosselytrodea Heraridea Hypoperlida Lapeyriidae Meganisoptera (griffinflies or "giant dragonflies") Megasecoptera Mendozachorista Miomoptera Monura Palaeodictyoptera Paoliida Permoplecoptera Protanisoptera Protelytroptera Protephemerida Protodiptera Protorthoptera Protozygoptera Pseudopulex Rhyniognatha Syntonoptera Titanoptera Triadophlebioptera Extinct incertae sedis families and genera are marked in italic
Wikispecies