GENUS NINETA Navás, 1912

Nineta Navás, 1912: 98 . Type species: Hemerobius flavus Scopoli, 1763; original designation.

Nineta is Holarctic in distribution (New 2001), i.e., Asia, Europe, North Africa, North America (Brooks and Barnard 1990), with 17 described species and 1 undescribed species (Canard 2004). Larvae of the European species are naked; larvae of North American species are unknown (Monserrat et al. 2001). There are two species in western North America (Brooks and Barnard 1990; Penny et al. 1997); one of these occurs in Canada, as follows: