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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies (Neuroptera) » Lacewings and Allies (Hemerobiiformia) » Mantid Lacewings (Mantispidae) » Mantispinae » Leptomantispa » Leptomantispa pulchella
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Mantidfly - Leptomantispa pulchella
Copyright © 2015 Matt Edmonds

Mantidfly - Leptomantispa pulchella
Pinellas County, Florida, USA
February 13, 2015
Size: .4 inch-ish
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Contributed by Matt Edmonds on 15 February, 2015 - 8:16am
Last updated 26 December, 2015 - 4:54pm

Moved
Moved from Mantispinae.

Everything points to Leptomantispa pulchella: small size; relatively smooth upper edge of giraffe-like pronotum, with the characteristic short, well-distributed hairs seeming barely perceptible; "banana & chocolate" marbling of pleura (though paler than usual); lack of tricolored antennae; relatively small number of "wishbones" on the distal half of the trailing edges of the forewings (looks like 5 or maybe 6 per forewing, but hard to discern exactly because they overlap).
… Aaron Schusteff, 26 December, 2015 - 4:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mantidflies.
… v belov, 15 February, 2015 - 8:27am login or register to post comments

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