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Nemopteridae
Sign in to saveNemopteridae, the spoonwings, are a family of neuropteran insects. They are also called thread-winged antlions. They are found in the Ethiopian, Palearctic, Australasian and Neotropical realms but absent in North America (though a fossil has been found in Colorado).
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderNeuroptera
- FamilyNemopteridae
Нитекрылка закавказская (Nemoptera sinuata) Halter imperatrix (слева) и Chasmatoptera sheppardi (справа) Нитекрылки (лат. Nemopteridae) — семейство насекомых из отряда сетчатокрылых (Neuroptera). Науке известно около 150 видов нитекрылок, разделяемых на два подсемейства. В Европе встречаются лишь семь видов. Основной сферой обитания этих насекомых являются пустыни и засушливые регионы Земли.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 16
- Family
- Nemopteridae
- Collections
- INHS, USNM, LACM, SAM, NMV, QM
- Recorded in
- South Africa, Namibia, Chile, Australia
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Nemopteridae, the spoonwings, are a family of neuropteran insects. They are also called thread-winged antlions. They are found in the Ethiopian, Palearctic, Australasian and Neotropical realms but absent in North America (though a fossil has been found in Colorado).
Their flight is delicate and they have a circling flight to avoid walls when they are trapped indoors. The long streamer is conspicuous when the insects are flying and these are the elongated and spatulate hindwings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nemopteridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.