| Pleasing lacewings | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Hexapoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Subclass: | Pterygota |
| Infraclass: | Neoptera |
| Superorder: | Endopterygota or Neuropterida |
| Order: | Neuroptera |
| Suborder: | Hemerobiiformia |
| Superfamily: | Mantispoidea |
| Family: | Dilaridae |
| Subfamilies | |
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Dilarinae |
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The pleasing lacewings, Dilaridae, are a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera.
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]