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A brown and reddish Lacewing larva, the kind that hunts without camouflage. Extremely long mandibles and wrinkled integument. About 8 mm in length. These are voracious predators, and is probably the larva of a Brown Lacewing. Family Chrysopidae. See also this spotting of a tiny lacewing larva with it's trash packet for camouflage. https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/20....
Surprisingly, this was walking on a wall below a light at night. Good place to hunt but very exposed and not a normal place to see them. Semi-rural residential area, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico 2,200 meters.
The brown lacewings are in the family Hemerobiidae, separate from the green lacewings in family Chrysopidae.
Spotted on Jul 7, 2019
Submitted on Jul 10, 2019
