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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 » Wasp Mantidflies (Climaciella) » Brown Wasp Mantidfly (Climaciella brunnea)
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wasp-like with strange front legs - Climaciella brunnea
Copyright © 2008 DaveAZ

wasp-like with strange front legs - Climaciella brunnea
north of Mesa, Mt. Ord road, before horse pen, Arizona, USA
October 9, 2008
Size: about 1 inch
This looked like a wasp, until I saw what looks like strange front legs.

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Contributed by DaveAZ on 9 October, 2008 - 3:56pm
Last updated 9 October, 2008 - 5:21pm

Interestingly
while the examples from other states are showing dark and light banding on the abdomen, the coloring of this one from AZ is just like that of one of our biggest and most aggressive AZ paper wasps, Polistes comanchus
… margarethe brummermann, 26 April, 2011 - 4:52pm login or register to post comments

 
mimic
So, this mantidfly mimics the paper wasp? In order to feed on it?
… DaveAZ, 27 April, 2011 - 2:45pm login or register to post comments

Check out the Mantidflies
here
… john and jane balaban, 9 October, 2008 - 4:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Not an expert but...
I think you may have an example of Climaciella brunnea
Below is a link to a similar color pattern as the one you photographed.
http://www.invasive.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=5382027
… Ron M., 9 October, 2008 - 4:26pm login or register to post comments

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