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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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Dicromantispa sayi
Copyright © 2019 metrioptera

Dicromantispa sayi
Boca Chica Blvd, Hwy 4, E. of Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, USA
July 21, 2019
common at blacklight
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Contributed by metrioptera on 3 August, 2019 - 1:49am
Last updated 20 May, 2020 - 11:16am

Moved
Moved from Plega.

From the initial gestalt, this falls in the often difficult to separate "Dicromantispa sayi or Leptomantispa pulchella" category. And it's clearly in the "light form" subcategory...both those species have two main color forms: a "light" (= yellowish & brown); and a "dark" (= black & yellowish) form.

But the tri-colored antennae and TX location here (as well as the large number of "wishbones") indicates D. sayi. See comments under post below for (extensive! ;-) details:

   
… Aaron Schusteff, 20 May, 2020 - 11:13am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mantidflies.
… Aaron Schusteff, 19 May, 2020 - 4:20pm login or register to post comments

 
are you sure?
Doesn't look like all the other photos of Plega here. The middle legs and especially the pronotum seem far too long. This was also not a mountain canyon habitat or anything similar - quite low-lying dunes and close to the beach. It also seems like it might be too far east for the genus?
… metrioptera, 20 May, 2020 - 6:36am login or register to post comments

 
Oops! I was juggling too many things...it was a "tag" error!
Sorry about that, Brandon! Thanks for alerting me ;-)

I had tagged your post here earlier intending to move it to Dicromantispa sayi...and then got distracted by something else. Later I moved a Plega post of Salvador's...and must have forgotten to "untag" your post first!
… Aaron Schusteff, 20 May, 2020 - 11:10am login or register to post comments

 
no problem!
I've made the same error before :) Thanks for the ID!
… metrioptera, 20 May, 2020 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

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