Family Sisyridae Banks 1905 (spongillafly)

Insecta - Neuroptera - Sisyridae

Alternative spelling: Sisyrinae

Full reference: N. Banks. 1905. A revision of the Nearctic Hemerobiidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:21-51

Parent taxon: Osmyloidea according to S. L. Winterton et al. 2019

See also Banks 1905, Carpenter 1992, Engel and Grimaldi 2008, Engel et al. 2018, Martins-Neto 2002 and Nel and Jarzembowski 1997

Sister taxa: Archeosmylidae, Nevrorthidae, Osmylidae, Saucrosmylidae

Subtaxa: Cretadilarinae Microsisyra Paleosisyra Paradoxosisyrinae Prosisyrina Sisyra Stictosisyra

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of France (1 collection)

• Eocene of France (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (1)

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (3), the Russian Federation (2)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Austria (1), China (1)

• Jurassic of Austria (1), France (6), Germany (2), India (4), Iran (1), Poland (3), Portugal (9), Romania (4)

Total: 45 collections including 55 occurrences

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