Nymphites Haase, 1890

Shi, Chaofan, Makarkin, Vladimir N., Yang, Qiang, Archibald, S. Bruce & Ren, Dong, 2013, New species of Nymphites Haase (Neuroptera: Nymphidae) from the Middle Jurassic of China, with a redescription of the type species of the genus, Zootaxa 3700 (3), pp. 393-410 : 395

Genus Nymphites Haase, 1890

Nymphites Haase, 1890: 23 ; Handlirsch 1906–1908 [1906]: 608 [ Nymphitidae ]; Jepson et al. 2012: 44 [ Nymphidae ].

Type species. Hemerobius priscus Weyenbergh, 1869 a, by original designation.

Diagnosis. Forewing elongate, broad proximally [strongly narrowed proximally in Liminympha Ren et Engel, 2007 ]; all distal veinlets of ScP once or twice forked [all veinlets of ScP simple in Mesonymphes Carpenter, 1929 ]; MP with four-five pectinate branches, each connected by one crossvein [crossveins absent between branches of MP in Liminympha ]; CuP space broad, more than twice as wide as intracubital space [narrow, nearly as wide as intracubital space in Liminympha ]. Hind wing MP with four-five pectinate branches [eight branches in Sialium Westwood, 1854 ]; at least proximal branches of CuA connected by crossveins [not connected in Mesonymphes ]; CuP short, not pectinately branched. Legs (at least hind) with tibial spurs.

Composition. Two species from the Jurassic of Eurasia: Nymphites bimaculatus sp. nov. from the Middle Jurassic of China, and Nymphites priscus (Weyenbergh, 1869) from the Late Jurassic of Germany.