Dipteromantispidae is an extinct family of

neuroptera The insect order (biology), order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, mantidflies, antlions, and their relatives. The order consists of some 6,000 species. Neuroptera is grouped together with the Megaloptera (alderflies, f ...

ns known from the Cretaceous period. Unlike other neuropterans, the family possesses only a single set of fully developed forewings, with the hindwings reduced to

haltere ''Halteres'' (; singular ''halter'' or ''haltere'') (from , hand-held weights to give an impetus in leaping) are a pair of small club-shaped organs on the body of two orders of flying insects that provide information about body rotations du ...

-like structures. They are generally small in size (forewing length 2.6-7.9 mm) and possess

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 leg, arthropod's foreleg that make it function for the grasping of prey whi ...

forelegs. They are considered to belong to

Mantispoidea Mantispoidea is a superfamily of euneuropteran insects in the order Neuroptera. The group was formerly placed in the paraphyletic suborder Hemerobiiformia, but is now considered sister to the superfamilies Dilaroidea and Osmyloidea. Mantispoid ...

, with an uncertain position within the clade. Some authors have suggested that they represent a subgroup of

Mantispidae Mantispidae (), commonly known as mantidflies, mantispids, mantid lacewings, mantisflies or mantis-flies, is a family of small to moderate-sized insects in the order Neuroptera. There are many genera with around 400 species worldwide, especially ...

, and should instead be referred to as the subfamily Dipteromantispinae within that family.

Taxonomy

* †'' Burmodipteromantispa'' Liu et al. 2016 ** †''Burmodipteromantispa jiaxiaoae'' Liu et al. 2016

Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. Th ...

, Myanmar,

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age (geology), age of the Late Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch or the lowest stage (stratigraphy), stage of the Upper Cretace ...

*†'' Enigmadipteromantispa'' Azar et al. 2020 ** †''Enigmadipteromantispa dimyi'' Azar et al. 2020 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian * †'' Dipteromantispa'' Makarkin et al. 2013 ** †''Dipteromantispa brevisubcosta'' Makarkin et al. 2013

Yixian Formation The Yixian Formation (; formerly Romanization of Chinese, transcribed as Yihsien Formation or Yixiang Formation) is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous. I ...

, China,

Aptian The Aptian is an age (geology), age in the geologic timescale or a stage (stratigraphy), stage in the stratigraphic column. It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous, Early or Lower Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch or series (stratigraphy), S ...

* †'' Halteriomantispa'' Liu et al. 2016 ** †''Halteriomantispa grimaldii'' Liu et al. 2016 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian * †'' Jersimantispa'' Liu et al. 2016 ** †''Jersimantispa henryi'' Grimaldi 2000D. Grimaldi. 2000. A diverse fauna of Neuropterodea in amber from the Cretaceous of New Jersey. ''Studies on Fossils in Amber, with Particular Reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey'' 259-303 (Formerly ''Mantispidiptera henryi'')

New Jersey amber New Jersey Amber, sometimes called Raritan amber, is amber found in the Raritan Formation, Raritan and Magothy Formations of the Mid-Atlantic states, Central Atlantic (Eastern) coast of the United States. It is dated to the Late Cretaceous, Turoni ...

Turonian The Turonian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy, ICS' geologic timescale, the second age (geology), age in the Late Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch, or a stage (stratigraphy), stage in the Upper Cretaceous series (stratigraphy), ...

* †'' Kurtodipteromantispa'' Li & Liu, 2020Li, H.Y., Liu, X.Y. 2020
A new genus and species of Dipteromantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) from Cretaceous Burmese amber
Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 59 (1): 100–108 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian ** †''Kurtodipteromantispa xiai'' Li et al., 2020 ** †''Kurtodipteromantispa zhuodei'' Li & Liu, 2020 * †'' Mantispidiptera'' Grimaldi 2000 ** †''Mantispidiptera enigmatica'' Grimaldi 2000 New Jersey amber, Turonian * †'' Mantispidipterella'' Liu et al. 2016 ** †''Mantispidipterella longissima'' Liu et al. 2016 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian * †'' Paradipteromantispa'' Li et al., 2020'''' ** †''Paradipteromantispa polyneura'' Li et al., 2020 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian

References

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