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So apart from the industrial output of the Ottoman Empire in WWI and convergent evolution in Afrotheria, we must also talk about Neuroptera like the Antlion Alice showed here
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Neuroptera or net-winged insects are an ancient insect order and have been fluttering around since the Periman, about 275 million years ago.
While mostly obscure nowadays, they once were the dominant insects and since most modern insect orders didn't exist back the, they filled the ecologic niches and diversified into the most ridiculous forms.

The extinct Kalligrammatidae roamed the sky of the Triassic and looked exactly like modern Nymphalid butterflies - but were Neuropterans.
Myrmeleontoidea look like small dragonflies but are Neuropterans.
Ascalaphidae look like a crossover between large dragonflies and butterflies - but are Neuropterans.
Dilaridae look like small fuzzy moths - but are Neuropterans.
Ithonidae look lice cicadas but are Neuropterans.
Nevrorthidae look like Alder- or Dobsonflies and the larvae also live in water under stones - but they're Neuropterans.
Mantispidae look like a praying mantis but are Neuropterans.
Coniopterygidae look like tiny aphids - but are Neuropterans.