Dilaridae

Dilaridae is a family of pleasing lacewings in the order Neuroptera. They were formerly placed in the superfamily Hemerobioidea. But it seems that the Dilaridae are a rather basal member of the Mantispoidea, which includes among others the mantidflies (Mantispidae), whose peculiar apomorphies belie that their relationship to the pleasing lacewings is apparently not at all distant. There are about 9 genera and at least 100 described species in Dilaridae.