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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings and Allies (Neuroptera) » Antlions (Myrmeleontidae) » Vella » Vella americana
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Beautiful camouflaged flying insect. - Vella americana
Copyright © 2008 Mary C. Boyer

Beautiful camouflaged flying insect. - Vella americana
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
September 25, 2008
Size: about 3 inches long
Again walking at Kingsley Plantation saw this Dragonfly? on an old piece of wood. Tried to look it up as a dragonfly but it has feelers and hairy legs. Wings are translucent. Can you help identify? Thank you.
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Contributed by Mary C. Boyer on 27 September, 2008 - 12:38pm
Last updated 20 June, 2009 - 10:19am

Moved
Moved from Vella.
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 20 June, 2009 - 10:19am login or register to post comments

#229199 Identification - Vella americana
Identification.
… John D. Oswald, 12 April, 2009 - 10:43am login or register to post comments

Finally found something close
Finally found something closer than the antlion. None of the antlion pics had hairy bodies, so I think this may be an owlfly.
… Mary C. Boyer, 31 October, 2008 - 12:15pm login or register to post comments

 
no owlfly
(P a r a n t h a c l i s i s, for one, is very hairy)
… v belov, 31 October, 2008 - 12:21pm login or register to post comments

 
ant lion
You're right. It is beautiful isn't it?
… Mary C. Boyer, 2 November, 2008 - 9:06pm login or register to post comments

look in ant lions (Myrmeleontidae)
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… v belov, 27 September, 2008 - 12:43pm login or register to post comments

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