So, in an article local Palaeontologists are calling 'pretty frigging cool', Yang et al. have described fossil lacewing's that have the same gross morphology as Butterflies, 45 million years before Butterflies appear in the fossil record. Even cooler, this is also before flowering plants were a thing. The fossils themselves are also really quite spectacular. Link to the article itself
man these things be freaky. so pretty much the modernday of same family but with fancier wings and suckmouths?