AY Honors/Insect/Raphidioptera

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{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Snakefly
| image = Raphidia notata beentree.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = ''[[Raphidia notata]]''
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| subclassis = [[Pterygota]]
| infraclassis = [[Neoptera]]
| superordo = [[Endopterygota]]
| ordo = '''Raphidioptera'''
| subordo_authority = [[Anton Handlirsch|Handlirsch]], 1908
| subdivision_ranks = [[Family (biology)|Families]]
| subdivision =
[[Priscaenigmatidae]] [[Michael S. Engel|Engel]] 
[[Baissopteridae]] Martynova 
[[Mesoraphidiidae]] Martynov 
[[Alloraphidiidae]] Carpenter 
[[Inocelliidae]] Navás 
[[Raphidiidae]] Latreille
}}

'''Snakeflies''' are a group of [[insect]]s in the [[order (biology)|order]] '''Raphidioptera''', which has traditionally been placed within the [[Neuroptera]] but is now generally regarded as a separate order (the traditional definition of Neuroptera included the Raphidioptera and [[Megaloptera]]; sometimes the name '''Neuropterida''' is used to refer to these three orders as a group).

Raphidioptera are characterized by having an elongate [[prothorax]] but no modification of the [[arthropod leg|forelegs]] (as in [[Mantispidae]]). Females typically have a long [[ovipositor]]. The two extant [[family (biology)|families]] of snakeflies are the Raphidiidae and Inocelliidae. They are all predatory, both as adults and [[larva]]e, and in [[North America]] occur exclusively in the [[Western United States]], but also occur throughout temperate [[Europe]] and [[Asia]]. They can be quite common.

The order contains some 150 species.

* Family [[Inocelliidae]]
**Genus ''[[Inocellia]]''
***''[[Inocellia crassicornis]]''
** Genus ''[[Negha]]''
***''[[Negha inflata]]''
***''[[Negha meridionalis]]''
* Family [[Raphidiidae]]
**Genus ''[[Agulla]]''
***''[[Agulla adnixa]]''
**Genus ''[[Dichrostigma]]''
***''[[Dichrostigma flavipes]]''
**Genus ''[[Mongoloraphidia]]''
***''[[Mongoloraphidia manasiana]]''
**Genus ''[[Phaeostigma]]''
***''[[Phaeostigma major]]''
***''[[Phaeostigma notata]]''
**Genus ''[[Subilla]]''
***''[[Subilla confinis]]''
**Genus ''[[Xanthostigma]]''
***''[[Xanthostigma xanthostigma]]''

==External links==
*{{cite web |url=http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Raphidioptera |publisher=[[Tree of Life Web Project]] |author=[[David Maddison|David R. Maddison]] |year=1995 |title=Raphidioptera. Snakeflies}}

==Further reading==
{{commonscat|Raphidiidae}}
*{{cite journal |quotes=no |author=H. Aspöck |year=2002 |title=The biology of Raphidioptera: A review of present knowledge |journal=[[Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae|Acta Zool. Acad. Sci. Hungaricae]] |volume=48 |issue=suppl. 2 |pages=35–50 |url=http://zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu/publication/actazool/48Suppl2/aspockraphi.pdf}}
*{{cite book|author=[[David Grimaldi]] & [[Michael S. Engel]] |title=Evolution of the Insects |year=[[2005]] |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|id=ISBN 0-521-82149-5}}
*{{cite journal |quotes=no |author=F. M. Carpenter |year=1936 |title=Revision of the nearctic Raphidiodea (recent and fossil) |journal=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. |volume=71 |pages=89–157}}

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