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Genus Sympherobius


A Revision of the genus Sympherobius Banks (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae) of America North of Mexico...
By Oswald JD
J. New York Entomol. Soc. 96(4):390-451, 1988
full title: A Revision of the genus Sympherobius Banks (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae) of America North of Mexico with a Synonymical List of the World Species

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supersedes (1)

A Revision of the Nearctic species of Sympherobius Banks
By Oswald JD
masters thesis, Oregon State University, 1985
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A revision of the Nearctic Hemerobiidae
By Nathan Banks
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, vol. 32: 21-51, 1905

Revision and cladistic analysis of the world genera of the family Hemerobiidae (Insecta: Neuroptera)
By Oswald J.D.
J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. 101: 143-299, 1993

A revision of the Nearctic Hemerobiidae, Berothidae, Sisyridae, Polystoechotidae and Dilaridae (Neuroptera)
By Carpenter F.M.
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sciences 74: 193-280, 1940

The Neuroptera of North-Central Texas, with keys for the identification of species
By Roy C. Vogtsberger
Midwestern State University [Master's thesis], 1990

Neuroptera (Neuropterida)
By John D. Oswald, Atilano Contreras-Ramos, & Norman D. Penny
Biodiversidad, Taxonomía y Biogeografía de Artrópodos de México: hacia una síntesis de su conocimiento. Vol. 3: pp. 559-581, 2002
Oswald, J. D.; Contreras Ramos, A.; Penny, N. D. 2002. Neuroptera (Neuropterida). Pp. 559-581 in Bousquets, J. L.; Morrone, J. J. (eds.). Biodiversidad, Taxonomía y Biogeografía de Artrópodos de México: hacia una síntesis de su conocimiento. Vol. 3. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Distrito Federal, Mexico. x + 690 pp.

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Phylogeny and evolution of Neuropterida: Where have wings of lace taken us?
By Engel M.S., Winterton S.L., Breitkreuz L.C.V.
Ann. Rev. Ent. 63: 531-551, 2018