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Unknown mantidfly - Dicromantispa interrupta

Unknown mantidfly - Dicromantispa interrupta
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
October 28, 2015

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Unknown mantidfly - Dicromantispa interrupta Unknown mantidfly - Dicromantispa interrupta

Moved to Dicromantispa interrupta
Moved from Dicromantispa sayi.

Note that the dark margin of wing edge is "interrupted" by a hyaline gap, with a dark blotch "continued" near the wing-tip. That...together with the congested clump of thickened veins just inward from the middle (or more like 2/3 the way out) of the costal wing edge...is diagnostic for D. interrupta (with the former being the motivation for the epithet).

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Dicromantispa sayi…
See reference here.

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