Green lacewing

Nothancyla verreauxi

Description:

A small (15 mm) slender green coloured insect with beautiful transparent green veined wings.

Notes:

some interesting information from betterbugs.com http://www.betterbugs.com/Lacewing.html

1 Species ID Suggestions

MartinL 12 years ago

Green lacewing

Nothancyla verreauxi http://morwellnp.pangaean.net/cgi-bin/show_species.cgi?find_this=Nothancyla%20verreauxi&image_letter=&show_image=../images/

3 Comments

MartinL 12 years ago

As far as I know these commonly seen eggs on stalks are lacewings. They possibly relate to the common green form that you thought you had spotted. You may enjoy my comments on this spotting. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/685...

Leuba Ridgway 12 years ago

Thanks martinl. I will change the ID - yes, he did have a broad out-curved line to the base of the wings. I haven't seen one before so, I was really excited when he flew into the kitchen last night.
He had lost the tip of one of the antennae !