Species Dicromantispa interrupta

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Mantidfly - Dicromantispa interrupta - female

Mantidfly 1 - Dicromantispa? - Dicromantispa interrupta

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Neuroptera (Antlions, Lacewings and Allies)

Suborder Hemerobiiformia

Family Mantispidae (Mantidflies)

Genus Dicromantispa

Species interrupta (Dicromantispa interrupta)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dicromantispa interrupta (Say, 1825)

=Mantispa interrupta, M. floridana

Identification

Note interrupted dark patch on border of fore-wing (continuous in D. sayi, which is also smaller); wings more spotted(1)

Range

PQ-MN-CO south to FL & TX(2)(3)

Works Cited

1.	Insects: Their Natural History And Diversity: With a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America By Stephen A. Marshall

2.	A Checklist and Bibliography of the Megaloptera and Neuroptera of Florida (by L. Stange)

3.	The Mantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) of Canada, with notes on morphology, ecology, and distribution By R.A. Cannings & S.G. Cannings

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 19 August, 2006 - 9:38pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 4 August, 2010 - 11:56am

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