moth lacewing

plural moth lacewings · alternative moth-lacewing

1. Any insect of the family Ithonidae.

   Cheeseweed moth lacewing (Oliarces clara) is a federal sensitive species.

   2000, Salton Sea Restoration Project: Environmental Impact Statement, page 1

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   He was also a great collector of the Moth-Lacewings, and the Silky-Lacewings, one of which, a small and delicate species, Psychopsella gallardi, was named in honour of him.

   1936, Australian Museum Trust, Nature in Australia, page 145

   Moth lacewings, family Ithonidae, are dull-coloured and resemble moths; they have mass flights at dusk in summer and autumn.

   1971, John Child, John E. B. Currey, Australia's insects, page 32

   The most significant aspects of this work were (a) placement of Ithonidae (moth lacewings) not as the closest relative of remaining neuropterans but rather in a more derived position closer to Myrmeleontiformia and (b) the placement of Nevrorthidae, instead, as the earliest-branching family.

   2009, Shaun L. Winterton, Brian M. Wiegmann, “Lacewings (Neuroptera)”, in S. Blair Hedges, Sudhir Kumar, editors, The Timetree of Life, page 290

   Synonyms: ithonid