Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- Family
- Nemopteridae
- Collections
- TAMU, MZLU
- Recorded in
- Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Turkey, Greece
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Nemopteridae
- Image
- Nemoptera bipennis.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Nemoptera
- taxon name
- Nemoptera
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Nemoptera
- diel cycle
- diurnality
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- References
- External links
thumb|Nemoptera sinuata
Nemoptera is a Palearctic genus of insects of the spoonwing family, Nemopteridae. All species are diurnal with an exclusively floral diet, preferring to fly in open spaces in full sunshine while visiting flowers. They can be recognized by their very long hind wing prolongations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nemoptera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.