neuropteran
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Mantispa styriaca, a neuropteran.
English
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Etymology
From translingual Neuroptera + -an.
Noun
neuropteran (plural neuropterans)
- Any insect of the order Neuroptera, having four large and membranous wings.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- moth lacewing, giant lacewing (Ithonioidea)
- osmylid (Osmyloidea)
- green lacewing, stinkfly (Chrysopoidea)
- brown lacewing (Hemerobioidea)
- dustywing, spongillafly (Coniopterygoidea)
- pleasing lacewing, mantidfly, thorny lacewing, beaded lacewing (Mantispoidea)
- silky lacewing, spoonwing (Nemopteroidea)
- split-footed lacewing, antlion, owlfly, ascalaphid (Myrmeleontoidea)
Derived terms
Translations
insect of the order Neuroptera
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See also
extant orders of insects in English
- jumping bristletails, archaeognathans (Archaeognatha)
- cockroaches and termites, blattodeans (Blattodea)
- beetles, coleopterans (Coleoptera)
- earwigs, dermapterans (Dermaptera)
- flies, dipterans (Diptera)
- webspinners, embiopterans (Embioptera)
- mayflies, ephemeropterans (Ephemeroptera)
- ice crawlers, grylloblattodeans (Grylloblattodea)
- true bugs, hemipterans (Hemiptera)
- hymenopterans (ants, bees, wasps, etc.) (Hymenoptera)
- butterflies and moths, lepidopterans (Lepidoptera)
- mantises, mantodeans (Mantodea)
- mantophasmids (Mantophasmatodea)
- scorpionflies, mecopterans (Mecoptera)
- megalopterans (alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies, etc.) (Megaloptera)
- neuropterans (antlions, lacewings, mantisflies, etc.) (Neuroptera)
- damselflies and dragonflies, odonatans (Odonata)
- orthopterans (crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, etc.) (Orthoptera)
- stick insects, phasmatodeans (Phasmatodea)
- stoneflies, plecopterans (Plecoptera)
- booklice, psocodeans (Psocodea)
- snakeflies, raphidiopterans (Raphidioptera)
- fleas, siphonapterans (Siphonaptera)
- strepsipterans (Strepsiptera)
- thrips, thysanopterans (Thysanoptera)
- caddis flies, trichopterans (Trichoptera)
- zorapterans (Zoraptera)
- silverfish, zygentomans (Zygentoma)
References
neuropteran on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
