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Neuroptera: Mantispidae
Less than 1 inch long insect that has the hindquarters of a wasp, head and ...
This species is a paper wasp mimic, so it looks like a strange combination of a ...
Keeps its body curved, has lace wings, keeps its antennae moving all the time. ...
I'm not exactly sure what type of insect this is, but I found it outside work
Found in backyard near pines and wetlands
A large lacewing insect with powerful grasping forelegs similar to a mantis
amazing insect that fits its common name perfectly, looks like part large fly ...
It was barely 3/4 of an inch at the most. also it has wings
, mantid lacewings or mantis-flies.
My first real encounter with a mantispidae, creature I always longed to see. I ...
Climaciella brunnea, known sometimes by the common names wasp mantidfly and ...
with the Mantisflies, rather than the ...
Small mantis looking creature with grasping front legs and eyes that look ...
Yellow mantidfly with a mid-dorsal stripe and a dark spot on the hindwings. ...
Mantispidae, known commonly as mantidflies, mantispids, mantid lacewings or ...
Smaller ones than the last spotting - these smaller 2cm in length , minus the ...
Half lacewing half mantis.
Typically starry blue eyes, raptorial forelegs, ...
a rather unusual insect. Although they have grasping mantid-like raptorial ...