Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Zeugomantispa minuta


Neuropterida Species of the World catalogue
A Catalogue of the Species-Group Names of the Extant and Fossil Neuropterida (Insecta: Neuroptera, Megaloptera and Raphidioptera) of the World

Bibliography of the Neuropterida
A searchable bibliography. Link updated 12 April 2009 as per comments below.

A Guide To The Megaloptera And Aquatic Neuroptera Of Florida
Quite extensive, 78 pages or so--I'm surprised nobody has posted this before. Contains neat little details, such as a key to the two Chauliodes and Nigronia species.

Link updated (again) 31 May 2009.

A Preliminary Survey of the Megaloptera of Oklahoma
Megaloptera are sometimes placed in a separate order from neuroptera.

Has some keys, descriptions.

A Checklist and Bibliography of the Megaloptera and Neuroptera of Florida
A checklist with extensive annotations.

Brown Lacewings of Florida
Univ. of Florida Featured Creaturs article, with quite a good discussion of this family.

Billd's Florida Insect Page.
This is my entomology page with photos and links about insects. I hope you use this page for science and education.

Say--American Entomology
Full title:
American entomology : a description of the insects of North American, with illustrations drawn and colored after nature / by Thomas Say ; edited by John L. LeConte ; with a memoir of the author by George Ord.
A lovely historical work. High resolution scans of individual plates (at the end of each volume) can be downloaded as JPEG2000 files. (Use a utility such as IrfanView to view them or convert them to other formats.) Many of the plates are lovely, and it is fascinating to see the fir