Color Names

Lacewing

Insect wings, delicate as doily, in a pale and faded greenish grey.

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Lacewing is a pale grey, close to green.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and unsaturated.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Lacewing

Hemerobiiformia

The Hemerobiiformia are a suborder of insects in the order Neuroptera that include most of the lacewings, antlions and their allies. The phylogeny of the Neuroptera was explored in 2014 using mitochondrial DNA sequences. The results indicate that the traditional Hemerobiiformia are paraphyletic, meaning that not all the members of the clade are considered to belong to it, in particular since it would include all the Myrmeleontiformia, with which the Hemerobiiformia were traditionally contrasted. The Osmyloidea, usually included in Hemerobiiformia, actually seem to represent a more ancient lineage basal to Hemerobiiformia as well as Myrmeleontiformia. The broken-up group is shown in the cladogram:

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lacewing

Noun

  1. Any of a number of gauzy-winged insects of certain families within the order Neuroptera.
  2. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cethosia (order Lepidoptera).
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