Permian ancestors of Hymenoptera and Raphidioptera

Crustaceans Protura Collembola Diplura Archaeognatha Zygentoma Odonata Ephemeroptera Zoraptera Dermaptera Plecoptera Orthoptera Mantophasmatodea Grylloblattodea Embioptera Phasmatodea Mantodea Blattodea Isoptera Thysanoptera Hemiptera Psocodea Hymenoptera Raphidioptera Megaloptera Neuroptera Strepsiptera Coleoptera Trichoptera Lepidoptera Siphonaptera Mecoptera Diptera

I nsects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth, occupying a broad range of niches across ecosystems. However, many insect groups have a poor fossil record, meaning that the early evolution of hexapod orders remains shrouded in mystery (1). For this reason, studies of insect diversification, the timing of evolutionary innovations, and the arthropod phylogeny rely on molecular date estim...

Inocellia indica sp. nov. (Raphidioptera: Inocelliidae): a new snakefly species from northeastern India.

A new species of the snakefly genus Inocellia Schneider, 1843 from northeastern India is described: Inocellia indica sp. nov. The new taxon represents the second species of Raphidioptera from the northeastern part of the Indian Subcontinent and appears to be closely related to I. bhutana Aspöck, Aspöck & Rausch, 1991 from neighboring Bhutan.

Insecta Neuroptera, Megaloptera e Raphidioptera

Neuroptera are holometabolous insects of small to medium size (in few cases large); their are over 6,500 estimated species worldwide, belonging to 37 orders (or suborders, according to the views of various authors): Megaloptera, Raphidioptera and Neuroptera sensu stricto. The Italian fauna is relatively well known thanks to works specifi cally aimed at this group, particularly following the rev...

Fauna Europaea: Neuropterida (Raphidioptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera)

Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and 14,000 accepted subspecies, wh...

Appendix 1 List of fossils, described as new by Senowbari-Daryan et al. from the Permian and Mesozoic of Iran