The Lacewing Digital Library (LDL) is a web portal designed to provide convenient access to a wealth of digital information pertaining to the lacewings, antlions, fishflies, snakeflies and related insects of the superorder Neuropterida (orders Neuroptera, Megaloptera and Raphidioptera). The LDL portal provides access to multiple on-line sources of information about neuropterid insects, world neuropterists, and related topics of interest. To access resources available through the portal select from the items found in the menu bar above, or choose a resource in the selection box below.

NEW! The LDL project team is pleased to announce the latest addition to the Lacewing Digital Library—the Bibliography of the Neuropterida (BotN), Version 8.00. This new version of the BotN contains an improved interface, expanded functionality, new citations and literature links, and is the first version of the Bibliography to be made available through the LDL web portal. Now with citations to >11,800 works and links to digital copies of >4300 works (>58,000 pages of text and illustrations), the Bibliography of the Neuroptera is better than ever before.

Lacewing Digital Library Resources: Select a resource . . . Neuropterida Species of the World, Version 2.00 (posted 31.x.2007) Neuropterida Species of the World: a dataset for collection curators (posted 31.x.2007) Neuropterists Directory (posted 15.ii.2008) Interactive Digital Keys to the Neuropterida Genera of the World, main module (posted 13.v.2008) Interactive Digital Key to the Psychopsidae Genera of the World (posted 13.v.2008) Interactive Digital Key to the Sialidae Genera of the World (posted 10.xi.2008) Bibliography of the Neuropterida, Version 8.00 (posted 7.iv.2009)