Polystoechotes
Sign in to savePolystoechotes is a genus of giant lacewings in the family Ithonidae. There are at least two described species in Polystoechotes, which are native to North America. The name is derived from the Greek πολύς (polys) meaning "much" and στοιχάς (stoichas) meaning "in rows behind another".
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Polystoechotes is a genus of giant lacewings in the family Ithonidae. There are at least two described species in Polystoechotes, which are native to North America. The name is derived from the Greek πολύς (polys) meaning "much" and στοιχάς (stoichas) meaning "in rows behind another".
==Species== These two species belong to the genus Polystoechotes: Polystoechotes gazullai , Chile Polystoechotes punctata (Fabricius, 1793), North America
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