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lacewing

Italochrysa italica

Description:

"Green lacewings are insects in the large family Chrysopidae of the order Neuroptera."

Habitat:

in the middle of the countryside in a countryhouse wall near the lightbulb at night

2 Species ID Suggestions

antlion(Adult Distoleon tetragrammicus)
Myrmeleonidae Antlion


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4 Comments

mendes.madalena
mendes.madalena 10 years ago

thanks Manval! seems legit :D

mendes.madalena
mendes.madalena 10 years ago

thanks Faredin :) i'll check it out

FaredinAliyevski
FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

This is not Antlion. It's called Lacewing, here is a similar to your but of course it's not the same http://www.flickr.com/photos/orionmyster... and if you search on google 'Lacewing' you will get a lot of links you can learn from :).

mendes.madalena
mendes.madalena 10 years ago

Thanks for the id :) but i think it actually suits my other antlion better because of the eyes no? http://naturdata.com/Distoleon-tetragram...

mendes.madalena
Spotted by
mendes.madalena

Portugal

Spotted on Aug 22, 2013
Submitted on Sep 3, 2013

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