snakeflies in English
noun
1
a slender woodland insect with transparent wings and a long “neck” that allows the head to be raised above the body.
Some other desert insects we've come across include the ant-lion, darkling beetle, velvet-ant and snake fly .
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1. A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of the Neuropterida (lace‐wings, Alderflies and snakeflies) and their relationship to the other holometabolous insect orders
2. Early studies on wing venation homologies often assumed Neuropterida (the superorder comprising the orders Raphidioptera, Megaloptera, and Neuroptera: Snakeflies, Alderflies and dobsonflies, and