Back Psychopsidae CEB Psychopsidae Spanish بالتوریان ابریشمی FA Psychopsidae NB Aniłtʼánii bitʼaʼ nteelígíí NV Психопсиды Russian Psychopsidae Swedish Mbawahariri Swahili Psychopsidae Ukrainian Psychopsidae WAR
| Silky lacewings Temporal range:
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| Psychopsis insolens | |
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| Undulopsychopsis alexi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Neuroptera |
| Superfamily: | Psychopsoidea |
| Family: | Psychopsidae Handlirsch, 1906 |
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Psychopsidae is a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera. They are commonly called silky lacewings.
The silky lacewings are distinguishable in their adult stage by their spectacularly patterned and pubescent wings, broad wing shape, dense venation, and the presence of a vena triplica (the apical fusion of three veins in the hindwing).[1][2]
- ^ Peng, Y.; Makarkin, V.N.; Wang, X.; Ren, D. (2011). "A new fossil silky lacewing genus (Neuroptera, Psychopsidae) from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China". ZooKeys (130): 217–228. doi:10.3897/zookeys.130.1576. PMC 3260761. PMID 22259278.
- ^ Grimaldi, D. and M. S. Engel. 2005. Evolution of Insects. Cambridge University Press, New York.