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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies (Neuroptera) » Lacewings and Allies (Hemerobiiformia) » Brown Lacewings (Hemerobiidae) » Microminae » Micromus » variolosus or subanticus (Micromus variolosus or subanticus)
Photo#163556
Brown Lacewing? - Micromus
Copyright © 2008 Charles Schurch Lewallen

Brown Lacewing? - Micromus
Henryetta, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, USA
January 2, 2008
Size: 7mm
I found this in my bathtub as I was getting ready to take my annual first of year bath.
I am hoping for spongefly .
I brought the hairnet coocon in several weeks ago as it never did emerge and forgot about it. I was hoping that this came out. I can't tell by looking at the coocon.
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Contributed by Charles Schurch Lewallen on 2 January, 2008 - 10:51am
Last updated 22 May, 2010 - 4:11am

Moved
Moved from Micromus.
… v belov, 22 May, 2010 - 4:11am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Brown Lacewings.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 24 September, 2008 - 3:35pm login or register to post comments

#163556 Identification – Micromus sp.
Identification. Probably M. subanticus, possibly M. variolosus.
… John D. Oswald, 24 September, 2008 - 9:12am login or register to post comments

I have no experience with either, but...
I looked in Marshall's Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity book and in Borror & Delong, and it seems to me to be a brown lacewing. There are two genera (three species of each) of spongillaflies in North America. Climacia is sort of splotchy-looking, pale with dark markings, while Sisyra is a uniform brown. From the photo in Marshall, the wing veins don't seem to have the speckly look that your bug does, while the brown lacewings do. It may well be that spongillaflies overwinter in their cocoons--I haven't read anything one way or the other yet.
… Charley Eiseman, 2 January, 2008 - 3:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Lacewing
Thanks Charley, I figured it must be a lacewing, just my luck.
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 2 January, 2008 - 5:12pm login or register to post comments

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