Sympherobius Banks, 1904

Jepson, James E., Penney, David & Green, David I., 2010, A new species of brown lacewing (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae) from Eocene Baltic amber, Zootaxa 2692, pp. 61-68 : 62

Genus Sympherobius Banks, 1904

Type species: Hemerobius amiculus Fitch, 1855 , by monotypy.

Included species. Over 50 extant species with an almost worldwide distribution, except Australia and the tropical regions of Africa and Asia ( Oswald 1988, 1993). The fossil record is sparse with two species in Baltic amber (Eocene), Sympherobius completus Makarkin et Wedmann, 2009 and S. siriae sp. nov. One species is known from Dominican amber (Miocene), Sympherobius sp. ( Engel & Grimaldi 2007; Makarkin & Wedmann 2009).

Comments. The specimen has been placed within the genus Symperobius on the basis of a swollen tibia, proximal recurrent humeral trace, trichosores present on humeral margin, a broad costal space, an absence of 2sc-r, three ORBs, the absence of 4r-m and CuP being simple and not forked proximad of the 2cua-cup crossvein.