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Subfamily Coniopteryginae

Dustywing - Coniopteryx Insect IMG_5279 - Conwentzia Adult - Semidalis Which Dustywing is this? - Conwentzia Which Dustywing is this? - Conwentzia Conwentzia - male Whitefly? - Conwentzia Larva ?
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Neuroptera (Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies)
Suborder Hemerobiiformia (Lacewings and Allies)
Family Coniopterygidae (Dusty Lacewings)
Subfamily Coniopteryginae
Numbers
33 spp. (of which at least one introduced) in 4 genera in our area, of which 5 spp. in 2 genera reaching Canada(1)
Range
in our area, most spp. are in sw. US, with 12 spp. of 4 genera in e. NA(1)
Remarks
genus not yet in the guide: Parasemidalis, with a single sp., P. fuscipennis, known to occur in the Palaearctic and a number of US states (MI, FL, AZ-CA)(1) and "somewhat more probable [to be] a true holarctic dustywing, than an introduced one" [in America] (György Sziráki, pers. comm. to =v= 25.x.2011)
Works Cited
1.Species catalog of the Neuroptera, Megaloptera, and Raphidioptera of America North of Mexico
Penny N.D., Adams P.A., Stange L.A. 1997. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 50: 39‒114.