NOUN
- an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies
How To Use Neuroptera In A Sentence
- The first neuropterans are believed to have appeared during the Permian, almost 300 million years ago.
- The life cycle of neuropterans includes four very distinct stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
- Zygopterans and tabanids were absent, and coleopterans, neuropterans, trichopterans, hemipterans (true bugs), and anisopterans were rare.
- Cardboard bands have been used to monitor a variety of overwintering predatory arthropods, including Neuroptera, spiders, and Heteroptera, all taxa that were monitored in the present study.
- In setting the larger beetles, as well as the various thick-bodied insects, belonging to the orders Orthoptera, Neuroptera, Diptera, and Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
- Shelob could well belong to a neotenic neuropteran species in which cocoon-spinning ability has been directed towards prey capture.
- They found in its mouth the buccal pieces of the Neuroptera, and, under the carapax, five pairs of branchial tufts attached to the segments that are invisible outwardly. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
- Coleoptera, the Neuroptera, the Hymenoptera no doubt occasion, in some of their forms at least, much damage to our crops. Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881
- Many other kinds of flies have their origin in the water, as perhaps the whole class of neuroptera. Note IV
- Zygopterans and tabanids were absent, and coleopterans, neuropterans, trichopterans, hemipterans (true bugs), and anisopterans were rare.