Myrmeleontiformia
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| Myrmeleontiformia | |
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| Myrmeleontiformia | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Neuroptera |
| Clade: | Geoneuroptera |
| Clade: | Myrmeleontiformia |
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Myrmeleontiformia is an insect clade in the order Neuroptera, and which was historically treated as a suborder.[1] The phylogeny of the Neuroptera has been explored using mitochondrial DNA sequences, and while issues remain for the order as a whole, such as "Hemerobiiformia" being paraphyletic, Myrmeleontiformia is generally agreed to be monophyletic, with one study giving the following cladogram:[2]
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