Insecta - Neuroptera - Chrysopidae
Parent taxon: Hemerobioidea according to M. S. Engel et al. 2018
See also Carpenter 1992, Engel and Grimaldi 2008, Makarkin et al. 2013, Martins-Neto 1997, Martins-Neto 2002 and Statz 1936
Sister taxa: Ascalochrysidae, Hemerobiidae, Osmylitidae, Solenoptilidae, Mesochrysopidae, Cratochrysidae, Hallucinochrysa, Tragichrysa, Acanthochrysa, Phyllochrysa, Corydasialidae, Tyruschrysa
Subtaxa: Chrysopinae Cretachrysa Danochrysa Limaiinae Nothochrysinae Paralembochrysa Stephenbrooksia
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Germany (1 collection)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (12), Spain (1)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (1), United States (3: Colorado)
• Eocene of Canada (3: British Columbia), Denmark (6), France (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (11: Colorado, Montana, Washington)
• Paleocene of China (1)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (3), China (4), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (10), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of China (1), Kazakhstan (6)
Total: 77 collections including 114 occurrences