English

A moth lacewing

Alternative forms

• moth-lacewing

Noun

moth lacewing ‎(plural moth lacewings)

1. Any insect of the family Ithonidae.
   • 1936, Australian Museum Trust, Nature in Australia, page 145,

     He was also a great collector of the Moth-Lacewings, and the Silky-Lacewings, one of which, a small and delicate species, Psychopsella gallardi, was named in honour of him.

   • 1971, John Child, John E. B. Currey, Australia's insects, page 32,

     Moth lacewings, family Ithonidae, are dull-coloured and resemble moths; they have mass flights at dusk in summer and autumn.

   • 2000, Salton Sea Restoration Project: Environmental Impact Statement, page 1,

     Cheeseweed moth lacewing (Oliarces clara) is a federal sensitive species.

   • 2009, Shaun L. Winterton, Brian M. Wiegmann, Lacewings (Neuroptera), S. Blair Hedges, Sudhir Kumar (editors), The Timetree of Life, page 290,

     The most significant aspects of this work were (a) placement of Ithonidae (moth lacewings) not as the closest relative of remaining neuropterans but rather in a more derived position closer to Myrmeleontiformia and (b) the placement of Nevrorthidae, instead, as the earliest-branching family.

Synonyms

• (any species of Ithonidae): ithonid