Mantispoidea

Mantispoidea
Mantidfly
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Subclass:	Pterygota
Infraclass:	Neoptera
Superorder:	Endopterygota or Neuropterida
Order:	Neuroptera
Suborder:	Hemerobiiformia
Superfamily:	Mantispoidea
Families Berothidae Mantispidae

The Mantispoidea are a superfamily of lacewing insects in the suborder Hemerobiiformia. It has two families.

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Insecta orders Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda (unranked): Pancrustacea Subphylum: Hexapoda   Extant Monocondylia Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) D i c o n d y l i a Apterygota * Thysanura (Zygentoma) (silverfish, firebrats) P t e r y g o t a Palaeoptera Ephemeropteroidea Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonatoptera Odonata (dragonflies, damselflies) N e o p t e r a Polyneoptera Plecoptera (stoneflies) Dermaptera (earwigs) Embioptera (webspinners) Phasmatodea (stick and leaf insects) Notoptera (ice-crawlers, gladiators) Orthoptera (crickets, wetas, grasshoppers, locusts) Zoraptera (angel insects) Dictyoptera Blattodea (cockroaches, termites) Mantodea (mantises) E u m e t a b o l a Paraneoptera * Psocodea (barklice, lice) Thysanoptera (thrips) Hemiptera (cicadas, aphids, true bugs) E n d o p t e r y g o t a basal Hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants, bees) Neuropteroidea Coleopterida Strepsiptera (twisted-winged parasites) Coleoptera (beetles) Neuropterida Raphidioptera (snakeflies) Megaloptera (alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies) Neuroptera (net-winged insects: lacewings, mantidflies, antlions) Panorpida (Mecopterida) Antliophora Mecoptera (scorpionflies) + Siphonaptera (fleas) Diptera (gnats, mosquitoes, flies) Amphiesmenoptera Trichoptera (caddisflies) Lepidoptera (moths, butterflies) Four most speciose orders are marked in bold Italic are paraphyletic groups Based on Sasaki et al. (2013)   Extinct Archodonata Blattoptera Caloneurodea Campylopteridae Carbotriplurida Coxoplectoptera Diaphanopterodea Eoblattodea Eocoronidae Eudiaphanoptera Erasipteridae Gerarus Geroptera Glosselytrodea Heraridea Hypoperlida Lapeyriidae Meganisoptera (griffinflies or "giant dragonflies") Megasecoptera Mendozachorista Miomoptera Monura Palaeodictyoptera Paoliida Permoplecoptera Protanisoptera Protelytroptera Protephemerida Protodiptera Protorthoptera Protozygoptera Pseudopulex Rhyniognatha Syntonoptera Titanoptera Triadophlebioptera Extinct incertae sedis families and genera are marked in italic Wikispecies