Mantispidae, the Glossary
Mantispidae, known commonly as mantidflies, mantispids, mantid lacewings, mantisflies or mantis-flies, is a family of small to moderate-sized insects in the order Neuroptera.[1]
Table of Contents
87 relations: Albian, Americas, Annual Review of Entomology, Apomorphy and synapomorphy, Aptian, Arthropod, Basal (phylogenetics), Batesian mimicry, Bee, Berothidae, Blacklight, Book lung, Bouldnor Formation, Burmese amber, Campion (lacewing), Cenomanian, Ciechocinek Formation, Climaciella, Climaciella brunnea, Convergent evolution, Dicromantispa, Dicromantispa electromexicana, Dicromantispa moronei, Dilaridae, Dipteromantispidae, Dominican amber, Early Jurassic, Eocene, Europe, Family (biology), Feroseta, Fossil, Genus, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Haifanggou Formation, Hemerobiiformia, Hemolymph, Incertae sedis, Insect, Jurassic, Karabastau Formation, Leptomantispa, Lopingian, Mantis, Mantispa, Mantispa styriaca, Mantispidae, Mantispinae, Mantispoidea, Messel pit, ... Expand index (37 more) »
- Extant Early Jurassic first appearances
- Mantispoidea
- Neuroptera families
Albian
The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.
Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Annual Review of Entomology
The Annual Review of Entomology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes review articles about entomology, the study of insects.
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Apomorphy and synapomorphy
In phylogenetics, an apomorphy (or derived trait) is a novel character or character state that has evolved from its ancestral form (or plesiomorphy).
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Aptian
The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column.
Arthropod
Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.
Basal (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.
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Batesian mimicry
Batesian mimicry is a form of mimicry where a harmless species has evolved to imitate the warning signals of a harmful species directed at a predator of them both.
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Bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey.
Berothidae
The Berothidae are a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera. Mantispidae and Berothidae are Mantispoidea and neuroptera families.
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Blacklight
A blacklight, also called a UV-A light, Wood's lamp, or ultraviolet light, is a lamp that emits long-wave (UV-A) ultraviolet light and very little visible light.
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Book lung
A book lung is a type of respiration organ used for atmospheric gas exchange that is present in many arachnids, such as scorpions and spiders.
Bouldnor Formation
The Bouldnor Formation is a geological formation in the Hampshire Basin of southern England.
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Burmese amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar.
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Campion (lacewing)
Campion is a genus of mantisflies belonging to the subfamily Mantispinae.
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Cenomanian
The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series.
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Ciechocinek Formation
The Ciechocinek Formation (also known as the Gryfice Formation at Suliszewo), known in Germany as the Green Series/Grimmen Formation (German: Grüne Serie) is a Jurassic (lower Toarcian) geologic formation that extends across the Baltic coast, from Grimmen, Germany, to Lithuania, with its major sequence in Poland and a few boreholes in Kaliningrad.
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Climaciella
Climaciella is a genus of wasp mantidflies in the family Mantispidae.
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Climaciella brunnea
Climaciella brunnea, known sometimes by the common names wasp mantidfly, western mantidfly, and brown mantidfly, is a predatory neuropteran insect in the family Mantispidae. Mantispidae and Climaciella brunnea are Mantispoidea.
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Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.
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Dicromantispa
Dicromantispa is a genus of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae.
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Dicromantispa electromexicana
Dicromantispa electromexicana is an extinct species of mantidfly in the neuropteran family Mantispidae known from a fossil found in North America. Mantispidae and Dicromantispa electromexicana are Mantispoidea.
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Dicromantispa moronei
Dicromantispa moronei is an extinct species of mantidfly in the neuropteran family Mantispidae known from a fossil found in the Caribbean. Mantispidae and Dicromantispa moronei are Mantispoidea.
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Dilaridae
Dilaridae is a family of Euneuropteran insects in the order Neuroptera, known as "pleasing lacewings". Mantispidae and Dilaridae are neuroptera families.
Dipteromantispidae
Dipteromantispidae is an extinct family of neuropterans known from the Cretaceous period. Mantispidae and Dipteromantispidae are Mantispoidea and neuroptera families.
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Dominican amber
Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic derived from resin of the extinct tree Hymenaea protera.
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Early Jurassic
The Early Jurassic Epoch (in chronostratigraphy corresponding to the Lower Jurassic Series) is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic Period.
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Eocene
The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Feroseta
Feroseta is an extinct genus of mantidfly in the neuropteran family Mantispidae known from a fossil found in North America, and which contains a single species, Feroseta prisca. Mantispidae and Feroseta are Mantispoidea.
Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services.
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Haifanggou Formation
The Haifanggou Formation, also known as the Jiulongshan Formation, is a fossil-bearing rock deposit located near Daohugou village of Ningcheng County, in Inner Mongolia, northeastern China.
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Hemerobiiformia
The Hemerobiiformia are a suborder of insects in the order Neuroptera that include most of the lacewings, antlions and their allies.
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Hemolymph
Hemolymph, or haemolymph, is a fluid, analogous to the blood in vertebrates, that circulates in the interior of the arthropod (invertebrate) body, remaining in direct contact with the animal's tissues.
Incertae sedis
of uncertain placement or problematica is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.
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Insect
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.
Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
Karabastau Formation
The Karabastau Formation (Qarabastaý svıtasy) is a geological formation and lagerstätte in the Karatau Mountains of southern Kazakhstan whose strata date to the Middle to Late Jurassic.
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Leptomantispa
Leptomantispa is a genus of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae.
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Lopingian
The Lopingian is the uppermost series/last epoch of the Permian.
Mantis
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. Mantispidae and Mantis are insects used as insect pest control agents.
Mantispa
Mantispa is the type genus of insects in the family Mantispidae and subfamily Mantispinae (order Neuroptera). Mantispidae and Mantispa are Mantispoidea.
Mantispa styriaca
Mantispa styriaca, the Styrian praying lacewing, is a species of predatory mantidfly native to Europe. Mantispidae and Mantispa styriaca are Mantispoidea.
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Mantispidae
Mantispidae, known commonly as mantidflies, mantispids, mantid lacewings, mantisflies or mantis-flies, is a family of small to moderate-sized insects in the order Neuroptera. Mantispidae and Mantispidae are extant Early Jurassic first appearances, insects used as insect pest control agents, Mantispoidea and neuroptera families.
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Mantispinae
Mantispinae is a subfamily of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae.
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Mantispoidea
Mantispoidea is a superfamily of euneuropteran insects in the order Neuroptera.
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Messel pit
The Messel pit (Grube Messel) is a disused quarry near the village of Messel (Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse) about southeast of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Mexican amber
Mexican amber, also known as Chiapas Amber is amber found in Mexico, created during the Early Miocene and middle Miocene epochs of the Cenozoic Era in southwestern North America.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
Neuroptera
The insect order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, mantisflies, antlions, and their relatives.
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Nocturnality
Nocturnality is a behavior in some non-human animals characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
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Nolima
Nolima is a genus of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae.
Nolima dine
Nolima dine is a species of mantidfly in the family Mantispidae.
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Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
Owlfly
Ascalaphidae is a family of insects in the order Neuroptera, commonly called owlflies; there are some 450 extant species. Mantispidae and owlfly are neuroptera families.
Paraphyly
Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages.
Parasitoid
In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host.
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Phoresis
Phoresis or phoresy is a temporary commensalistic relationship when an organism (a phoront or phoretic) attaches itself to a host organism solely for travel.
Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
Prehistory
Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems.
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Priabonian
The Priabonian is, in the ICS's geologic timescale, the latest age or the upper stage of the Eocene Epoch or Series.
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Raptorial
In biology (specifically the anatomy of arthropods), the term raptorial implies much the same as predatory but most often refers to modifications of an arthropod's foreleg that make it function for the grasping of prey while it is consumed, where the gripping surfaces are formed from the opposing faces of two successive leg segments (see illustration).
Rhachiberothidae
Rhachiberothidae, sometimes called thorny lacewings, are a family of winged insects in the order Neuroptera. Mantispidae and Rhachiberothidae are Mantispoidea and neuroptera families.
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Rupelian
The Rupelian is, in the geologic timescale, the older of two ages or the lower of two stages of the Oligocene Epoch/Series.
Scarabaeidae
The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 35,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles.
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Sinuiju Formation
The Sinuiju Formation(신의주층) is a geologic formation in North Korea.
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Sinuijumantispa
Sinuijumantispa is an extinct genus of mantidflies from the Early Cretaceous Sinuiju Formation in North Korea.
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Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk.
Spider anatomy
The anatomy of spiders includes many characteristics shared with other arachnids.
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Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.
Subtropics
The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics.
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Taxon
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy;: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
Taxonomic rank
In biology, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy.
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Toarcian
The Toarcian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, an age and stage in the Early or Lower Jurassic.
Tropics
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.
Tuberonotha
Tuberonotha is a genus of Asian mantisflies in the subfamily Mantispinae, erected by Handschin in 1961.
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Type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).
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Wasp
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder.
Xeromantispa
Xeromantispa is a genus of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae.
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Yixian Formation
The Yixian Formation (formerly transcribed as Yihsien Formation) is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans the late Barremian and early Aptian stages of the Early Cretaceous.
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Zaza Formation
The Zaza Formation is a geological formation located in Buryatia (Russia).
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Zeugomantispa
Zeugomantispa is a genus of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae.
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
The Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering zoology published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Linnean Society.
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See also
Extant Early Jurassic first appearances
- Balanus
- Bullhead shark
- Caecilian
- Caridea
- Carpet shark
- Cryptodira
- Diadematoida
- Echinacea (animal)
- Glomerula
- Gnathostomata (echinoid)
- Gymnophiona
- Holectypoida
- Lepidoptera
- Mantispidae
- Mesoeucrocodylia
- Metasuchia
- Neosuchia
- Phymosomatoida
- Psychocidaridae
- Snakefly
- Sphenodontidae
Mantispoidea
- Berothidae
- Climaciella brunnea
- Dicromantispa electromexicana
- Dicromantispa moronei
- Dipteromantispidae
- Feroseta
- Lomamyia latipennis
- Mantispa
- Mantispa styriaca
- Mantispidae
- Mantispoidea
- Microberotha
- Raptorapax
- Rhachiberothidae
Neuroptera families
- Berothidae
- Chrysopidae
- Coniopterygidae
- Dilaridae
- Dipteromantispidae
- Hemerobiidae
- Ithonidae
- Mantispidae
- Nemopteridae
- Nevrorthidae
- Nymphidae
- Osmylidae
- Owlfly
- Psychopsidae
- Rhachiberothidae
- Sisyridae
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantispidae
Also known as Calomantispinae, Drepanicinae, Liassochrysidae, Mantid Lacewings, Mantid lacewing, Mantidflies, Mantidfly, Mantis-Fly, Mantis-flies, Mantisflies, Mantisfly, Mantisipidae, Mantispid, Mantispids, Symphrasinae.
, Mexican amber, Miocene, Neuroptera, Nocturnality, Nolima, Nolima dine, Oligocene, Owlfly, Paraphyly, Parasitoid, Phoresis, Predation, Prehistory, Priabonian, Raptorial, Rhachiberothidae, Rupelian, Scarabaeidae, Sinuiju Formation, Sinuijumantispa, Species, Spider, Spider anatomy, Subfamily, Subtropics, Taxon, Taxonomic rank, Toarcian, Tropics, Tuberonotha, Type species, Wasp, Xeromantispa, Yixian Formation, Zaza Formation, Zeugomantispa, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.