neuropteran

English

Mantispa styriaca, a neuropteran.

Etymology

From translingual Neuroptera +‎ -an.

Noun

neuropteran (plural neuropterans)

1. Any insect of the order Neuroptera, having four large and membranous wings.

Synonyms

• lacewing (sometimes used to refer to all members of the order), neuropter (obsolete)

Hyponyms

• Ithonioidea: moth lacewing, giant lacewing
• Osmyloidea: osmylid
• Chrysopoidea: green lacewing, stinkfly
• Hemerobioidea: brown lacewing
• Coniopterygoidea: dustywing, spongillafly
• Mantispoidea: pleasing lacewing, mantidfly, thorny lacewing, beaded lacewing
• Nemopteroidea: silky lacewing, spoonwing
• Myrmeleontoidea: split-footed lacewing, antlion, owlfly, ascalaphid

Derived terms

• neuropteral, neuropterous

Translations

insect of the order Neuroptera

• Finnish: verkkosiipinen
• Polish: sieciarka f
• Spanish: neuróptero m

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