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Osmyloid lacewing

Stenolysmus extraneus

Description:

40mm long; 4 long clear wings forming a tent at rest; long orange striped abdomen (flexible); small orange head and thorax; orange legs with dark tibia; very long, fine antennae (28mm);

Habitat:

This one fell off a tree nto the leaf litter on a public bush walking track.

Notes:

Thanks to all for the right direction on this ID - It was a long journey.
Wing venation... https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sha...
And on ALA... https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:...
and larval stages here https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Larv...

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5 Comments

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 4 years ago

Ok the wing venation matches the Osmyloids.
Thanks again oxyjack et al.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 12 years ago

Thanks oxyjack. I looked at the browns once. I'll go back over them with a fine tooth-comb.
I'm having difficulty believing how little there is to find in Aus on lacewings.

oxyjack
oxyjack 12 years ago

It has the wing be venation of a brown lacewing, Family Hemerobiidae.

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 12 years ago

beautiful wings !

MartinL
MartinL 12 years ago

It looks like a lacewing

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Spotted on Mar 22, 2012
Submitted on Mar 24, 2012

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