Insecta - Neuroptera - Chrysopidae
Alternative spelling: Limaiidae
Full reference: R. G. Martins-Neto and M. A. Vulcano. 1988. Neurópteros (Insecta, Planipennia) da Formação Santana (Cretáceo Inferior), Bacia do Araripe, nordeste do Brasil. I - Família Chrysopidae. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 60:189-201
Parent taxon: Chrysopidae according to Z. L. Chen et al. 2022
See also Engel and Grimaldi 2008, Jepson et al. 2012, Khramov 2018, Khramov et al. 2015, Lu et al. 2018, Makarkin 1997, Makarkin and Archibald 2013, Martins-Neto 1997, Martins-Neto 2002, Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1988, Nel et al. 2005, Nel and Henrotay 1994 and Zhang et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Chrysopinae, Cretachrysa, Danochrysa, Nothochrysinae, Paralembochrysa, Stephenbrooksia
Subtaxa: Aberrantochrysa Araripechrysa Baisochrysa Drakochrysa Limaia Mesypochrysa Parabaisochrysa Protochrysa
Type: Limaia
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia collection), Denmark (3)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (3), China (4), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (9), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of China (1), Kazakhstan (6)
Total: 30 collections including 43 occurrences