Hoelzeliella Mucroberotha Rhachiberotha Rhachiella
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Rhachiberothidae, sometimes called thorny lacewings, are a family of winged insects in the order Neuroptera. The family has only 14 extant species in 4 genera found in Sub-Saharan Africa, but has a diverse fossil record extending back to the Early Cretaceous in Lebanon (then part of North Gondwana), Eurasia and North America.[1] Like the closely related Mantispidae members of the group possess raptorial forelegs, which probably only evolved once in the common ancestor of the groups.[2]
Long included in the Berothidae (beaded lacewings), they are usually considered a separate family by current authors. Another closely related group are the mantidflies (Mantispidae), and at least some of the probably paraphyletic group of fossil forms collectively called "Mesithonidae" also seem to be quite close.[citation needed]
^Nakamine, Hiroshi; Yamamoto, Shuhei (2018-12-04). "A new genus and species of thorny lacewing from Upper Cretaceous Kuji amber, northeastern Japan (Neuroptera, Rhachiberothidae)". ZooKeys (802): 109–120. doi:10.3897/zookeys.802.28754. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6290048. PMID 30568531.
^Ardila-Camacho, Adrian; Martins, Caleb Califre; Aspöck, Ulrike; Contreras-Ramos, Atilano (2021-06-28). "Comparative morphology of extant raptorial Mantispoidea (Neuroptera: Mantispidae, Rhachiberothidae) suggests a non-monophyletic Mantispidae and a single origin of the raptorial condition within the superfamily". Zootaxa. 4992 (1): 1–89. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4992.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
Rhachiberothidae, sometimes called thorny lacewings, are a family of winged insects in the order Neuroptera. The family has only 14 extant species in 4...
closely related to the Dilaridae (pleasing lacewings) and the thorny (Rhachiberothidae) and beaded lacewings (Berothidae). These and the prehistoric Mesithonidae...
representing the first record of either the family Berothidae or the family Rhachiberothidae from the Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine) reported to date is described...
Azar; André Nel (2010). "A New Thorny Lacewing (Insecta: Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae) from the Early Cretaceous Amber of Lebanon". Acta Geologica Sinica...
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