Neuroptera (Including Megaloptera)

This order once encompassed all insects with a complex network of wing veins, regardless of whether their metamorphosis was incomplete or complete. By the early 20^th century, most of the species had been transferred to new orders, leaving only a small percentage of the insects once assigned to the Neuroptera remaining in that order. By the second half of the 20^th century, some of the taxonomists began to believe that the fragmentation of this order had gone too far, and that the order Megal...