Berothidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Neuropterida
Ordo: Neuroptera
Subordo: Hemerobiiformia
Superfamilia: Mantispoidea

Familia: Berothidae
Subfamiliae (6): Berothinae
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Genera (24): †Ansoberotha – Berotha – †Creagroparaberotha – †Elektroberotha – Isoscelipteron – Lomamyia – †Microberotha – Protobiella – †Sinosmylites – Spiroberotha – Stenobiella – †Xenoberotha
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Name

Berothidae Handlirsch, 1906

References

Handlirsch, A. 1906–1908. Die fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch für Paläontologen und Zoologen. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. 1430 pp. [1906: pp. 1–640, 1907: pp. 641–1120, 1908: pp. 1120–1430]. BHL Reference page.
Archibald, S.B.; Makarkin, V.N. 2004. New genus of minute Berothidae (Neuroptera) from Early Eocene amber of British Columbia. The Canadian Entomologist, 136(1): 61–76. Archived from the original on 2011-08-18.
Ardila-Camacho, A. 2013: First record of beaded lacewings (Neuroptera, Berothidae) from Colombia. Zootaxa 3669(2): 159–164. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3669.2.7 Reference page.
Li, D., Aspöck, H., Aspöck, U. & Liu, X-Y. 2018. A review of the beaded lacewings (Neuroptera: Berothidae) from China. Zootaxa 4500(2): 235–257. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.2.5 Paywall Reference page.
Machado, R.J.P. & Krolow, T.K. 2016. A new species of Spiroberotha Adams 1989 (Neuroptera: Berothidae) and the first record of the genus in Brazil. Zootaxa 4093(1): 127–134. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.1.8.Reference page.
Makarkin, V.N. 2015. A new genus of the mantispid-like Paraberothinae (Neuroptera: Berothidae) from Burmese amber, with special consideration of its probasitarsus spine-like setation. Zootaxa 4007(3): 327–342. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.3.2. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Makarkin, V.N. 2017. An interesting new genus of Berothinae (Neuroptera: Berothidae) from the early Eocene Green River Formation, Colorado. Zootaxa 4226(4): 594–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4226.4.9. Reference page.
Makarkin, V.N. & Ohl, M. 2015: An important new fossil genus of Berothinae (Neuroptera: Berothidae) from Baltic amber. Zootaxa 3946(3): 401–415. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3946.3.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Wedmann, S. et al. 2013: First fossil larvae of Berothidae (Neuroptera) from Baltic amber, with notes on the biology and termitophily of the family. Zootaxa 3716(2): 236–258. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3716.2.6 Reference page.
Yang, Q., Shi, C-F. & Ren, D. 2019. A new genus and species of berothids (Insecta, Neuroptera) from the Late Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Zookeys, 864: 99–109. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.864.35271 Reference page.
Zhang, S-H., Yang, Y-H., Chen, J-Y., Liu, L-M., Cao, Z-D. & Xie, S-P. 2022. A new species of beaded lacewings (Neuroptera, Berothidae) from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Zookeys 1092ː 93–104. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1092.79396 Open access Reference page.

The Berothidae are a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera. They are known commonly as the beaded lacewings.[1] The family was first named by Anton Handlirsch in 1906.[2]

Berothidae is very closely related to the thorny lacewings which are often included in the Berothidae as subfamily "Rhachiberothinae". They are also occasionally considered to be the distinct family Rhachiberothidae or included as a subfamily in the mantidflies.[2] The family consists of 24 genera and 110 living species distributed discontinuously worldwide, mostly in tropical and subtropical regions.[3] Eleven extinct genera with a total of 13 species have been described from the fossil record.[2]

The larvae are associated with termites.[1]

Systematics

The peculiar genus Lomamyia cannot be robustly assigned to any one subfamily. In addition, a considerable fossil diversity of beaded lacewings is known from the Late Jurassic onwards, containing numerous genera which are likewise basal or incertae sedis.
Extant genera

Asadeteva Aspöck & Aspöck, 1981
Austroberothella Aspöck & Aspöck, 1985
Berlekrumyia Aspöck & Aspöck, 1988
Berotha Walker, 1860
Berothimerobius Monserrat & Deretsky, 1999
Cyrenoberotha MacLeod & Adams, 1968
Isoscelipteron Costa, 1863
Lekrugeria Navás, 1929
Lomamyia Banks, 1904
Manselliberotha Aspöck & Aspöck, 1988
Naizema Navás, 1919
Nodalla Navás, 1926
Nosybus Navás, 1910
Nyrma Navás, 1933
Ormiscocerus Blanchard, 1851
Podallea Navás, 1936
Protobiella Tillyard, 1923
Quasispermophorella Aspöck & Aspöck, 1986
Spermophorella Tillyard, 1916
Spiroberotha Adams, 1990
Stenobiella Tillyard, 1916
Tanzanberotha Aspöck & Hynd, 1995
Trichoberotha Handschin, 1935
Trichoma Tillyard, 1916

Extinct genera

†Ansoberotha Yang et al. 2019 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
†Araripeberotha Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1990 Crato Formation, Brazil, Aptian
†Banoberotha Whalley 1980 Lebanese amber, Barremian
†Caririberotha Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1990 Crato Formation, Brazil, Aptian
†Cantabroberotha Pérez-de la Fuente, Peñalver & Engel, 2020, Spanish amber, Albian
†Cornoberotha Yang et al. 2019 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
†Dasyberotha Engel and Grimaldi 2008 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
†Elektroberotha Makarkin and Ohl 2015 Baltic amber, Eocene
†Epimesoberotha Jepson et al. 2012 Lulworth Formation, United Kingdom, Berriasian
†Ethiroberotha Engel and Grimaldi 2008 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
†Haploberotha Engel and Grimaldi 2008 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
†Iceloberotha Engel and Grimaldi 2008 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
†Jersiberotha Grimaldi 2000 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian New Jersey amber, Turonian
†Krokhathone Khramov 2015 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Callovian/Oxfordian
†Maculaberotha Yuan et al. 2016 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
†Magniberotha Yuan et al. 2016 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
†subfamily Mesithoninae Panfilov 1980
†Berothone Khramov 2015 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Callovian/Oxfordian
†Mesithone Panfilov 1980 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Callovian/Oxfordian Zaza Formation, Turga Formation, Russia, Aptian
†Pseudosisyra Makarkin 1999 Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
†Microberotha Archibald and Makarkin 2004 Hat Creek amber, Canada, Ypresian
†Nascimberotha Grimaldi 2000 New Jersey amber, Turonian
†Oloberotha Ren and Guo 1996 Yixian Formation, China, Aptian
†Osmyloberotha Khramov 2021 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
†Protoberotha Huang et al. 2019 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
†Sibelliberotha Azar and Nel 2013 Lebanese amber, Barremian
†Sinosmylites Hong 1983 Daohugou, Haifanggou Formation, China, Callovian, Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Callovian/Oxfordian, Ulaan-Ereg Formation, Mongolia, Tithonian
†Systenoberotha Engel and Grimaldi 2008 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
†Telistoberotha Engel and Grimaldi 2008 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
†Xiaoberotha Shi et al. 2019 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
†Xenoberotha Makarkin 2017 Green River Formation, United States, Eocene

References

Winterton, Shaun L. (2010). "A new species of Stenobiella Tillyard (Neuroptera, Berothidae) from Australia". ZooKeys (64): 1–8. doi:10.3897/zookeys.64.403. PMC 3088400. PMID 21594021.
Archibald, S.B.; Makarkin, V.N. (February 2004). "New genus of minute Berothidae (Neuroptera) from Early Eocene amber of British Columbia" (PDF). The Canadian Entomologist. 136 (1): 61–76. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.552.2285. doi:10.4039/n03-043. S2CID 36459014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-18.

Aspöck, Ulrike; Randolf, Susanne (2 December 2014). "Beaded lacewings – a pictorial identification key to the genera, their biogeographics and a phylogentic analysis (Insecta: Neuroptera: Berothidae)". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 61 (2): 155–172. doi:10.3897/dez.61.8850 – via Pensoft.

Bugguide.net. Family Berothidae - Beaded Lacewings