Insects of the order Neuroptera usually bear four welldeveloped wings. However, there are a few brachypterous, micropterous or apterous species, found in several extant families (see a short review below). Grimaldi (2000) described the enigmatic fossil neuropteran genus Mantispidiptera Grimaldi and its two minute species M. enigmatica Grimaldi and M. henryi Grimaldi (forewings 2.63–3.12 mm long...

Mantis lacewings (Neuroptera: Mantispidae) are prominent and charismatic predatory representatives of Insecta. Nevertheless, the group surprisingly scarce in Paleogene deposits after a relative abundance specimens known from Cretaceous. Here we present Mantispa? damzenogedanica sp. nov., representing first adult Mantispidae described Baltic amber only Eocene mantispid hitherto preserved amber. ...

In this study were documented the species of brown-lacewings (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae) found at Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros, in Alto Paraíso de Goiás, state Goiás and Grande Sertão Veredas, Gaúcha, Minas Gerais, both Brazil, based on a survey carried out with Malaise traps between February 2018 May 2019. During samplings 60 specimens hemerobiids captured, being 26 Nusalala tessell...

Arthropod populations from agricultural fields sometimes depend on the surrounding landscape structure, both composition and configuration, which affects multiple life-history traits of arthropods such as resources for survival, dispersion or death risk (e.g., predation parasitism). Moreover, effect may vary with distance to crop, depending factors organism requirements capabilities. This work ...