spoon-winged lacewing

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English

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Nemoptera bipennis

Noun

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spoon-winged lacewing (plural spoon-winged lacewings)

  1. Any insect of the family Nemopteridae.
    • 1974, M. W. Mansell, “Biology of Spoon-Winged Lacewings (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae: Nemopterinae)”, in Proceedings of the ... Congress of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, volumes 1-6, page 47:
    • 2004, Michael F. Whitimg, “21: Phylogeny of the Holometabolous Insects: The Most Successful Group of Terrestrial Organisms”, in Joel Cracraft, Michael J. Donoghue, editors, Assembling the Tree of Life, page 351:
      The Myrmeleontiformia include antlions (Myrmeleontidae), owlflies (Ascalaphidae), spoon-winged lacewings (Nemopteridae), and two additional, rather obscure families.
    • 2011, Pat Willmer, Pollination and Floral Ecology, page 302:
      The spoon-winged lacewing, a neuropteran, has been reported as having specialist pollen- and nectarfeeding mouthparts (Krenn et al. 2008) and to be a proficient flower visitor, selecting Brassicaceae and Asteraceae, but especially Achillea.

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