Dilaridae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
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: Hemerobioidea

Familia: Dilaridae
Subfamilia: Dilarinae - Nallachiinae
Name

Dilaridae Newman, 1853
Vernacular names
English: pleasing lacewings

Dilaridae is a family of insects in the order Neuroptera, known as "pleasing lacewings". They were formerly placed in the superfamily Hemerobioidea. But it seems that the Dilaridae are a rather basal member of the Mantispoidea, which includes among others the mantidflies (Mantispidae), whose peculiar apomorphies belie that their relationship to the pleasing lacewings is apparently not at all distant.[1]

There are about 9 genera and at least 100 described species in Dilaridae.[2][3][4][5]
Genera

These nine genera belong to the family Dilaridae:

Berothella Banks, 1934 i c g
†Cascadilar Engel 1999 Baltic amber, Eocene c g
†Cretadilar Makarkin 2017 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian c g
Cretanallachius c g
†Cretodilar Liu and Zhang 2016 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian c g
Dilar Rambur, 1838 i c g
Nallachius Navás, 1909 i c g b
Neonallachius Nakahara, 1963 i c g

Other genera previously considered to belong to family as the subfamily Cretanallachiinae have subsequently been moved to the Kalligrammatidae.

Data sources: i = ITIS,[2] c = Catalogue of Life,[3] g = GBIF,[4] b = Bugguide.net[5]
References

See references in Haaramo (2008)
"Dilaridae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
"Browse Dilaridae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
"Dilaridae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
"Dilaridae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-22.