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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Order Odonata - Dragonflies and Damselflies


An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America
By Merritt RW, Cummins KW, Berg MB (Editors)
Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2019

Descriptions of New Species of North American Neuropteroid Insects
By Nathan Banks
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 37(4): 335-360, 1911
FULL TEXT

Includes: Perlidae (Plecoptera); Raphididae [sic] (Raphidioptera); Chrysopidae, Hemerobiidae, Mantispidae, Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera); Panorpidae (Mecoptera); Limnephilidae, Rhyacophilidae, Sericostomatidae, Hydropsychidae (Trichoptera)

New Neuroptera and Trichoptera from the United States
By Nathan Banks
Psyche 50: 74-81, 1943

The Megaloptera and Neuroptera of Minnesota
By Sophy I. Parfin
The American Midland Naturalist, 47(2): 421-434, 1952

Notes on Insects Associated with Desert Broom (Baccharis sarothroides Gray) (Compositae) in Southeastern Arizona
By R. P. Meyer, F. G. Zalom, T. L. McKenzie and P. H. Mason
The Southwestern Naturalist Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 603-612, 1979

Insects of Latin America: A Photographic Guide
By Stephen Cresswell
Trox Press, 2016
Useful for species that also occur in our area, particularly in the souther US.

Annotated Checklist of the Neuropterida of Virginia (Arthropoda: Insecta)
By Oliver S. Flint, Jr.
Banisteria, number 45, pages 3-47, 2015

New genera and species of Nearctic Neuropteroid insects.
By Banks, N.
Transactions of the American Entomological Society 26(3): 239-259., 1900
Full Text - JSTOR
Full Text - BHL

Banks, N. 1900. New genera and species of Nearctic Neuropteroid insects. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 26(3): 239-259.