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Myrmeleontoidea  Latreille, 1802
Taxonomic Serial No.: 666110

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Superfamily  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2014   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderNeuropterida   
                               OrderNeuroptera Linnaeus, 1758 – ant lions, lacewings, mantisflies, owlflies, spongillaflies, bichos lixeiros, formigas leão, antlions, mantispids  
                                  SuborderMyrmeleontiformia   
                                     SuperfamilyMyrmeleontoidea Latreille, 1802  
    Direct Children:  
                                        Family Ascalaphidae Rambur, 1842 – owlflies 
                                        Family Myrmeleontidae Latreille, 1802 – antlions 
                                        Family Nemopteridae   
                                        Family Osmylidae Leach, 1815  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Gillott, Cedric  
  Publication Date: 1980   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Entomology   
  Page(s): xviii + 729   
  Publisher: Plenum Press   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-306-40366-8   
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  Reference for: Myrmeleontoidea   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: The arrangement of families into groups (suborders, superfamilies) within the Neuroptera has been in flux, and will probably continue to change as it is the subject of active research  
 

 

    

 
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