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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies (Neuroptera) » Lacewings and Allies (Hemerobiiformia) » Dusty Lacewings (Coniopterygidae) » Coniopteryginae
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dustywing larva
Copyright © 2017 Steve Scholnick

dustywing larva
North Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
October 18, 2017
Size: 1.4mm
one seriously weird looking insect

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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 21 October, 2017 - 9:28pm
Last updated 10 October, 2020 - 12:57am

Moved to subfamily Coniopteryginae
Moved from Dustywings.
… Aaron Schusteff, 10 October, 2020 - 12:57am login or register to post comments

Excellect photos
...especially considering how seriously tiny these larvae are as well ;-)

This is in subfamily Coniopteryginae due to "Antennae of larvae about twice as long as labial palpi" per the subfamily key on pp. 35–36 of Meinander(1972)...also compare with Fig. 10, pg. 31 vs. Fig. 9 pg. 30 therein (where "Lpl" = labial palp).
… Aaron Schusteff, 10 October, 2020 - 12:57am login or register to post comments

 
thanks
each of the images is a stack of a few frames taken under a microscope with the larva confined to a spectrophotometer cuvette. This was one of the rare occasions where the subject sat still long enough to do that.
… Steve Scholnick, 10 October, 2020 - 5:33pm login or register to post comments

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