A new species ofSisyra Burmeister 1839 (Neuroptera: Sisyridae) from Four Springs Lake and Wadley's Dam, Northern Tasmania

First confirmation of spongillaflies (Neuroptera: Sisyridae) from the Cretaceous

“…The family Sisyridae includes six genera, two extinct (Prosisyrina gen. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous of northern Siberia, and Paleosisyra with two named species from the European Eocene), and four extant: the nearly cosmopolitan Sisyra (47 extant species), known also from the upper Miocene; Climacia (22 species) restricted to the New World, from Canada (Ontario and Quebec) to Chile; Sisyborina (two species) from tropical Africa; and Sisyrina (three species) from tropical Asia (southern India, Hainan in southern China) and Australia (northern Queensland) (Oswald, 2013;Monserrat and Duelli, 2014;Forteath et al, 2015). The validity of Sisyborina is in need of confirmation as its venation is very similar to that of Sisyrina.…”

A new species of Sisyra Burmeister, 1839 (Neuroptera: Sisyridae) from Peru, with identification key to the Neotropical species of the genus

“…Currently, Sisyridae comprises 85 species, including 12 extinct, distributed in 12 genera. Sisyra Burmeister, 1839 is the most species-rich genus of the family, with 49 valid species (Forteath et al, 2015;Assmar and Calor, 2020;Oswald, 2022). It is distributed worldwide, except in the North and South poles, and it can be differentiated from the other genera due to the lack of the series of outer gradate crossveins in the forewing (Parfin and Gurney, 1956;Monserrat, 1981).…”