Nymphidae, sometimes called split-footed lacewings, are a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera.[1] There are 35 extant species native to Australia and New Guinea.
Nymphidae stand somewhat apart from other living Myrmeleontoidea. The antlions (Myrmeleontidae) and the owlflies (Ascalaphidae) are more closely related to them, but the bulk of the Nymphidae sister groups include extinct taxa known only from fossils, such as the Nymphitidae, Osmylopsychopidae or Babinskaiidae. The spoonwings (Nemopteridae) were at one time also believed to be quite closely related, but they seem to belong to another lineage of Myrmeleontiformia altogether. The family is divided into two major subfamilies, Nymphinae and Myiodactylinae. The larvae of nymphines are similar to antlions, with relatively elongate bodies, and camouflage themselves in debris, living and hunting on the ground, while myiodactylines have wide, disc shaped bodies, and are arboreal, living on plants.[2][3]
Fossil genera are known from Europe, Asia as well as North and South America, extending back to the Middle Jurassic.[4]
^S. Bruce Archibald, Vladimir N. Makarkin & Jörg Ansorge (2009). "New fossil species of Nymphidae (Neuroptera) from the Eocene of North America and Europe" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2157: 59–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2157.1.4. S2CID 9304328.
^Haug, Gideon T.; Haug, Carolin; van der Wal, Serita; Müller, Patrick; Haug, Joachim T. (March 2022). "Split-footed lacewings declined over time: indications from the morphological diversity of their antlion-like larvae". PalZ. 96 (1): 29–50. doi:10.1007/s12542-021-00550-1. ISSN 0031-0220.
^Shi, Chaofan; Winterton, Shaun L.; Ren, Dong (October 2015). "Phylogeny of split‐footed lacewings ( N europtera, N ymphidae), with descriptions of new C retaceous fossil species from C hina". Cladistics. 31 (5): 455–490. doi:10.1111/cla.12104. ISSN 0748-3007. PMID 34753272.
^Archibald, S. Bruce; Makarkin, Vladimir N. (June 2020). "A new genus and species of split-footed lacewings (Neuroptera) from the early Eocene of western Canada and revision of the subfamily affinities of Mesozoic Nymphidae". The Canadian Entomologist. 152 (3): 269–287. doi:10.4039/tce.2020.10. ISSN 0008-347X. S2CID 216238397.
Nymphidae, sometimes called split-footed lacewings, are a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera. There are 35 extant species native to Australia...
(includes Palaeoleontidae) Family Nemopteridae: spoonwings etc Family Nymphidae: split-footed lacewings (includes Myiodactylidae) Family †Rafaelianidae...
antlions within the Myrmeleontoidea are the owlflies (Ascalaphidae); the Nymphidae are more distantly related. The extinct Araripeneuridae and Babinskaiidae...
Antlion (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) and Split-footed Lacewing (Neuroptera: Nymphidae), with Phylogenetic Implications of Myrmeleontiformia". Int J Biol Sci...
G. (June 1970). "The Neuroptera of the Baltic Amber. 1. Ascalaphidae, Nymphidae, and Psychopsidae" (PDF). Psyche. 77 (2): 147–180. doi:10.1155/1970/45459...
Family Nemopteridae: spoonwings etc (formerly in Myrmeleontoidea) Family Nymphidae: split-footed lacewings (includes Myiodactylidae) Family †Rafaelianidae...
possibly in Ascalaphidae) Family Nemopteridae: spoonwings etc Family Nymphidae: split-footed lacewings (including Myiodactylidae) Family †Rafaelianidae...
Antlion (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) and Split-footed Lacewing (Neuroptera: Nymphidae), with Phylogenetic Implications of Myrmeleontiformia". International...
Rafaelnymphes is an extinct genus of lacewing in the family Nymphidae known from a fossil found in South America. The genus contains a single species...
presence of trumpet-shaped elongate empodia in members of the families Nymphidae and Osmylidae, and argue that the empodium evolved only once in Neuroptera...
Nymphes is an Australian lacewing genus in the family Nymphidae. Nymphes aperta Nymphes modesta Nymphes myrmeleonides Nymphes nigrescens Nymphes paramyrmeleonides...
Berothidae, Chrysopidae, Hemerobiidae, Ithonidae (including Polystoechotidae), Nymphidae, Osmylidae, and Psychopsidae. Fossil wings first described in 2015 were...
Archibald, Vladimir N. Makarkin & Jörg Ansorge (2009). "New fossil species of Nymphidae (Neuroptera) from the Eocene of North America and Europe" (PDF). Zootaxa...
Garrouste, and A. Nel. 2016. New lacewings (Insecta, Neuroptera, Osmylidae, Nymphidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Burmese amber and Crato Formation in Brazil...
absence of forewing oblique vein". They are considered transitional between Nymphidae and more derived myrmeleontodoids, such as antlions. †Babinskaia Martins-Neto...
Garrouste, and A. Nel. 2016. New lacewings (Insecta, Neuroptera, Osmylidae, Nymphidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Burmese amber and Crato Formation in Brazil...
Global Information
