lacewing

/ˈleɪs.wɪŋ/

Etymology

From lace + wing. Possibly a calque of translingual Neuroptera.

noun

Any of a number of gauzy-winged insects of certain families within the order Neuroptera.“We recently proposed a new genus of Thorny Lacewing (Insecta, Neuroptera, Rhachiberothidae) from the Eocene amber of France.”
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cethosia (order Lepidoptera).