title: Myrmeleontiformia
text: # Myrmeleontiformia
  
  Myrmeleontiformia is an insect clade in the order Neuroptera, and which was historically treated as a suborder. 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:
  
  ## Superfamilies and families
  
  Clade Myrmeleontiformia
  
  * Superfamily Myrmeleontoidea (syn Nemopteroidea)
     * Family Ascalaphidae: owlflies (possibly in Myrmeleontoidea)
     * Family †Babinskaiidae
     * Family Myrmeleontidae: antlions (includes Palaeoleontidae)
     * Family Nemopteridae: spoonwings etc (formerly in Myrmeleontoidea)
     * Family Nymphidae: split-footed lacewings (includes Myiodactylidae)
     * Family †Rafaelianidae
  * Superfamily Psychopsoidea
     * Family †Aetheogrammatidae
     * Family †Kalligrammatidae
     * Family †Osmylopsychopidae (syn †Brongniartiellidae)
     * Family †Panfiloviidae (syn †Grammosmylidae)
     * Family †Prohemerobiidae
     * Family Psychopsidae: silky lacewings
  