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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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Another Mantispid - Leptomantispa pulchella
Copyright © 2015 Dave McShaffrey

Another Mantispid - Leptomantispa pulchella
Beiser Field Station, Washington County, Ohio, USA
August 22, 2015
Another view. Again, this individual was teneral.

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Another Mantispid - Leptomantispa pulchella Another Mantispid - Leptomantispa pulchella
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Contributed by Dave McShaffrey on 22 August, 2015 - 4:29pm
Last updated 7 January, 2016 - 7:56pm

Moved
Moved from Mantispinae.
… Aaron Schusteff, 7 January, 2016 - 7:56pm login or register to post comments

Leptomantispa pulchella
Dicromantispa sayi and Leptomantispa pulcehlla can be very hard to distinguish from one another. But three items here all point to the latter:

1) There are just 5 "wishbones" (inverted "Y"'s) along the posterior edge of the wing.2) Zooming in on your image as far as possible in my web browser, the upper edge of the pronotum looks very smooth.3) The thorax has the mottled "glowing banana yellow" and "chocolate brown" color of L. pulchella, rather than the mottled flatter yellow and blackish coloration of the dark form of D. sayi common in the northeast (corresponding to the former D. uhleri).
All three of the above taken together point strongly to L. pulchella. See the comments under the post below for (perhaps too!) copious further details:

 
… Aaron Schusteff, 7 January, 2016 - 7:43pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks!
Aaron - thanks for the ID and the helpful comments. Always nice to work with a pro! Timely, too. I'm putting together a poster on our ATBI; this just became species 529 for our field station. Thanks again. Dave
… Dave McShaffrey, 7 January, 2016 - 9:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 22 August, 2015 - 7:00pm login or register to post comments

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