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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 » Dicromantispa » Say's Mantidfly (Dicromantispa sayi)
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Snakefly eating Horsefly. - Dicromantispa sayi - female
Copyright © 2017 William A. Krithinithis

Snakefly eating Horsefly. - Dicromantispa sayi - Female
Rochester, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, USA
September 9, 2017
Size: 1ΒΌ" inch=33mm=3.3cm).
Hanging out near a porch light.
She snagged a "Greenhead Horsefly" (Saltmarsh Greenhead), Greenhead & equalized justice on it by having it it for in lunch... ;- )
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Contributed by Bkripto on 9 September, 2017 - 9:41pm
Last updated 8 July, 2021 - 7:59am

Moved
Moved from Mantispinae.

The reported size should be well outside the range of L. pulchella, which further corroborates Aaron's suspicion.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 8 July, 2021 - 7:59am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mantidflies.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 12 September, 2020 - 9:53am login or register to post comments

I'm not able to discern enough detail to make a clear ID
...but this appears to pose the classic "Dicromantispa sayi vs. Leptomantispa pulchella" dilemma.

For what it's worth, the comparatively long & narrow wings; somewhat transversely "rumpled" pronotum; and gestalt of the color/pattern make me tend to side with D. sayi here...but that's just my "best shot", not a dependable ID.
… Aaron Schusteff, 26 February, 2018 - 9:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 9 September, 2017 - 10:38pm login or register to post comments

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