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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies (Neuroptera) » Antlions and Allies (Myrmeleontiformia) » Antlions & Owlflies (Myrmeleontidae)
Owlflies are derived antlions: anchored phylogenomics supports a new phylogeny and classification of Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera)
By R.J.P. Machado, J.P. Gillung, S.L. Winterton, I.J. Garzón-Orduña, A.R. Lemmon, E.M. Lemmon, & J.D. Oswald
Systematic Entomology 44(2): 418-450, 2018
DOI: 10.1111/syen.12334

This is the first phylogenomic analysis conducted for Myrmeleontoidea. As of this study, owlflies are no longer recognized as their own family but rather as a subfamily (Ascalaphinae) within Myrmeleontidae. The table at the end is especially useful for placing genera.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329187102
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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 25 September, 2020 - 6:20am

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