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Owlfly eye detail - Ascaloptynx appendiculata
Copyright © 2004 Giff Beaton

Owlfly eye detail - Ascaloptynx appendiculata
Ohoopee Dunes Natural Area, Emanuel County, Georgia, USA
June 2, 2004
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Contributed by Giff Beaton on 2 February, 2006 - 5:18am

#41967 Identification -- Ascaloptynx appendiculata
This is an adult of the owlfly Ascaloptynx appendiculata (Fabricius, 1793) [not "appendiculatus"]. For accounts of the biology of this species (as Ascaloptynx furciger) see Bibliography of the Neuropterida (http://insects.tamu.edu/research/neuropterida/neur_bibliography/bibhome.html) reference numbers (r#) 2875 and 2877.
… John D. Oswald, 18 August, 2006 - 2:45pm

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