Talk:Neuroptera

message: The major resources, including the Tree of Life Project, Wikispecies, and the World Neuropterida Catalog, all treat Megaloptera and Raphidioptera as separate orders. There is no substantial resistance to this classification among neuropterists.Dyanega 17:54, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Woah, but you took out Planipennia and all the families of Neuroptera from the list. I think they need to be put back, otherwise people aren't going to find them without knowing about them first. --Kugamazog 22:17, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Planiplennia

message: I suggest to remove the cladogram, for the following reasons:
# it does not add information beyond the list, being very badly resolved and overall dubious
# is conflicts with the list - so where do the Psychopsidae go?
# Henningian combs are generally unhelpful
# it entirely lacks support values or any other measure of its reliability, except the profusion of questionmarks which only serve to show how bad it is
#it entirely lacks (this is a code problem) any indication of closeness of taxa, treating them all as equitistant. Bullshit of the highest degree.
# most people have trouble reading cladograms, therefore I do not like to use them in Wikipedia - it's a psychological thing, see . The average layperson is actually more often than not fooled by cladograms into incorrect beliefs about phylogeny.
It would be better to discuss the issues in-text, while noting that neuropterid pyhlogeny is by and large provisional, andf annotating which groups are candidates for being paraphyletic. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 22:20, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I see. This is the cladogram from ToLweb. But it is from 1995, entirely obsolete. I will remove it and adopt the phylogeny of Haaramo; that is current as of 2008. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 15:13, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cladogram

message: As insect larvae often don't resemble their adult forms--and this is particulary true of the neuropterans--could someone please add a photo or two of some neuropteran larvae to this article for comparison? thank you 165.91.64.245 (talk) 18:39, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: request

message: This page has a rather large introduction section (the section before the Contents table) compared to the total size of the article. I feel that the entry could be more effective and have greater accessibility if this introduction section was shortened and the content be placed in the contents section in subcategories. This would make it easier to find and sort through the information presented. The article only has 3 sections. The first two, anatomy and life cycle or relatively short and do not provide that much information. The third section is the Taxonomy section and its taxonomy, classification and suborder comprises most of the content in the article. While this information is important it is just a list and doesn’t present anything interesting or informative about the order. The article leaves out a lot of information including its behavior in respect to altruism and its social context. Overall I don’t think that this article is a good article because it doesn’t give that much information about the given topic. However, it is good in the sense that the page has many links to other, more specific, organisms that may have more information. --Jeremy.winkler (talk) 19:51, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments for a Class 

message: Doesn't seem to say.  By that I mean regions. ~ R.T.G 20:40, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where do they inhabit? 

message: Since 'lacewings' is widely accepted as a common name for the whole order (and yes I've heard of antlions and mantidflies), I suggest we move the title to Lacewing. Chiswick Chap (talk) 05:08, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: According to The Body’s Most Embarrassing Organ Is an Evolutionary Marvel:
Lacewing larvae incapacitate termite prey with the toxic flatulence they emit from their end—“they literally KO their enemies with death farts,” Ainsley Seago, an entomologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, told me.
I came to this wikipedia page to read more about it, but it is not discussed in the article.
Jeffrey Walton  (talk) 00:42, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: This is known only for one genus in the family Berothidae, and is linked on the page for that genus, Lomamyia. It does not belong in a general article. Dyanega (talk) 17:44, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lacewing larvae incapacitate termite prey with the toxic flatulence they emit from their end 

message: would you be interested in updating the cladograms on the article with the one from the 2018 article I just inserted?  Im horrible with cladogram syntax or I would take a stab at it myself.--Kevmin § 19:17, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Updating the cladograms?