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Mantispidae
Spotted on Nov 8, 2011
Submitted on Nov 8, 2011
8 Comments
Thanks martinl and Ashish for the ID
Diganta.. you must trust Martin... he is expert on Arthropods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantispidae...
This does look like the correct ID for your mantis lacewing http://bugguide.net/node/view/538261/bgp...
Nice mantis lacewing. Here's a similar one I found that seems very similar even over a long distance. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/819...
Really cool and different!
I don't know what species you have there, but would agree that it is a mantidfly of some sort from the Family Mantispidae.
Some sort of fly that mimics mantids
Something from Mars?!! Different.