Family Hemerobiidae Latreille 1802 (brown lacewing)

Insecta - Neuroptera - Hemerobiidae

Synonym: Promegalomidae Panfilov 1980

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième 1-467

Parent taxon: Hemerobioidea according to M. S. Engel et al. 2018

See also Engel and Grimaldi 2008 and Panfilov 1980

Sister taxa: Ascalochrysidae, Chrysopidae, Osmylitidae, Solenoptilidae, Tragichrysa, Corydasialidae, Tyruschrysa, Phyllochrysa, Acanthochrysa, Hallucinochrysa, Mesochrysopidae, Cratochrysidae

Subtaxa: Promegalomus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of China (1 collection), the Dominican Republic (3), the Russian Federation (2)

• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (1)

• Eocene of Canada (3: British Columbia), Denmark (3), Germany (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (6), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (6), United States (2: Montana, Washington)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Canada (1: Alberta), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (3), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (1)

• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (1)

Total: 42 collections including 60 occurrences

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