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Insect Morphology and SystematicsNEUROPTERA
– CHRYSOPIDAEInsect Morphology and SystematicsNEUROPTERA
– CHRYSOPIDAE
NEUROPTERA
Etymology
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Neuro-nerve; ptera - wings.
Common names
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Lace wings, Ant lions, Mantispidflies, Owlflies.
Characters
They are soft bodied insects.
Antenna is filiform, with or without a terminal club.
Mouthparts are chewing type in adults.
Wings are equal, membranous with many cross veins.
They are held in a roof-like manner over the abdomen.
They are weak fliers
Larva is campodeiform with mandibulosuctorial mouthparts.
Pupa is exarate. Pupation takes place in a silken cocoon. Six out of eight Malpighian
tubules are modified as silk glands. They spin the cocoons through anal spinnerets.
Classification:
This order is subdivided into two suborders viz.,Megaloptera and Planipennia.
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