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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 » Wasp Mantidflies (Climaciella) » Brown Wasp Mantidfly (Climaciella brunnea)
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Wasp mantispid fly - Climaciella brunnea
Copyright © 2009 Joe Zito

Wasp mantispid fly - Climaciella brunnea
Heritage Valley, Allamakee County, Iowa, USA
June 20, 2009
Size: 25 mm
Not the best pictures, but I was so excited to have found this guy that I wanted to post them now. Look at that neck! Also does not appear anyone has posted for Iowa. We found a half dozen of these, all flying around the blooms of wild parsnip, presumably hunting whatever was coming to those blooms. Climaciella brunnea, I presume.

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Contributed by Joe Zito on 22 June, 2009 - 6:01pm
Last updated 9 November, 2009 - 11:01pm

you're right, Climaciella brunnea -- has unique looks
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