Dilaridae

Pleasing Lacewings

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, known as , is a of neuropteran insects comprising approximately 9 and at least 100 described . The family was formerly classified within the superfamily Hemerobioidea but is now placed in the monophyletic superfamily Dilaroidea, where it represents a sister group to Mantispoidea and Osmyloidea. The family includes both extant genera and several extinct genera known from Cretaceous and Eocene amber deposits.

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