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Hemerobius ?

Hemerobius ?
Chateauguay, Quebec, Canada
September 4, 2016

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Hemerobius ? Hemerobius ?

Moved
Moved from Brown Lacewings.

Moved
Moved from Megalomus fidelis.

Wing venation definitely doesn't agree with that genus at all (much less dense, shorter costals), and this lacks the pigmentation of the species. There also appears to be at least a partial pale streak down the thorax, which is much more typical of the Hemerobiinae. The two included genera are also the most common brown lacewings in Quebec.

 
From what I can see, there ar
From what I can see, there are only two genus in the Hemerobiinae : Hemerobius and Wesmaelius. Since it is not the only North American species of Wesmaelius nor of Hemerobius would it be better to classify it in the family Hemerobiidae. Thanks.

 
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I'm not sure why you would suggest that. There are 5 species of Wesmaelius and 9 species of Hemerobius just reported from Quebec, with many more across the US + Canada. The only genus only represented by a single species in our covered area is Psectra. Wing venation also excludes the other subfamilies and as far as I can see is most likely in alignment with Hemerobius. There's no need to move these back to family.

 
Something escapes me. On BugG
Something escapes me. On BugGuide, when I click on the genus Wesmalius the following message appears: "There are no guide pages below this one". https://bugguide.net/node/view/71437/tree

On iNat, I find only one species in the genus Wesmalius for North America. This is W. longifrons.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=49.38&nelng=-66.94&place_id=any&swlat=25.82&swlng=-124.39&taxon_id=252925&view=species " class="bb_url">On iNat, I find only one species in the genus Wesmalius for North America. This is W. longifrons.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=49.38&nelng=-66.94&place_id=any&swlat=25.82&swlng=-124.39&taxon_id=252925&view=species


In summary, I am unable to find any photos of the 5 species of Wesmalius you mention.

 
Species listings
Species (and associated ranges) are listed under the info tabs of the BugGuide pages for both genera. I would never recommend relying solely upon either the tree tab or iNaturalist listings as those only include local identifications. Many species simply don't have any identified photos online, often either due to difficulties keying specimens from photos.

Just for example, the number of Chrysopidae species on BugGuide with representative photos has doubled since about 2019 after I began working with our images, and that's still only about 57% of our fauna. Our Hemerobiidae are even worse with only about a third of our species represented.

Many of our species do have photos on BOLD (including Hemerobius and Wesmaelius), but they're not always very helpful angles.

 
Alright I understand now. Wha
Alright I understand now. What added to my confusion is that all the species of the genus Wesmaelius did not even appear in the Taxonomy tab of BugGuide https://bugguide.net/node/view/71437/tree

I thought all North American species would be listed there even though there were no pictures on BugGuide. Thanks for your clarifications.

Moved
Moved from Brown Lacewings.

 
This is a new species for us
This is a new species for us and an addition for the northeast on the BugGuide distribution map. Thanks !

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