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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies (Neuroptera) » Lacewings and Allies (Hemerobiiformia) » Brown Lacewings (Hemerobiidae) » Hemerobiinae » Hemerobius » Hemerobius stigma
Photo#11884
Brown Lacewing - Hemerobius stigma
Copyright © 2005 Mike Boone

Brown Lacewing - Hemerobius stigma
Greenwood County, South Carolina, USA
February 22, 2005
Size: ~11mm
Found at night on my sliding glass door. Probably attracted to the porch lights. Length from head to ends of wings was a little less than half an inch, approx. 11mm. Antennae were approximately the same length.
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Contributed by Mike Boone on 23 February, 2005 - 10:00pm
Last updated 18 August, 2006 - 11:14am

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Moved from Brown Lacewings. Thanks for the ID!
… Mike Boone, 18 August, 2006 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

#11884 Identification
This is the brown lacewing Hemerobius stigma Stephens, 1836. For an account of its biology (in England, the species is Holarctic) see Bibliography of the Neuropterida (http://insects.tamu.edu/research/neuropterida/neur_bibliography/bibhome.html) reference number (r#) 6308.
… John D. Oswald, 18 August, 2006 - 10:44am login or register to post comments

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