Species Oliarces clara - Cheese-weed Moth Lacewing

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Oliarces clara, Moth Lacewing - Oliarces clara

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Neuroptera (Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies)

Suborder Hemerobiiformia (Lacewings and Allies)

Family Ithonidae (Giant and Moth Lacewings)

Genus Oliarces

Species clara (Cheese-weed Moth Lacewing)

Other Common Names

Cheese-weed Moth-lacewing

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Oliarces clara Banks 1908

Numbers

The only extant NA species of the family(1)

Size

Forewing ~16 mm long and 5 mm wide; wingspan 35-40 mm, body 18 mm long (Johnson 1992)

Range

Known only from [a few localities in] so. CA and the adjacent parts of NV and AZ. (J.D. Oswald, 16 July, 2009)

At present, about 10 isolated populations are known. (AGFD Invertebrate Abstract)

Habitat

Populations occur on or near bajadas; adults aggregate at local high topographic features to mate (Johnson 1992)

Season

Synchronized adult emergence occurs from mid-April to mid-May. Several large-scale adult emergencies have been observed with estimated densities up to 250,000/acre (Johnson 1992)

Food

Larvae associated with the roots of creosote bush in desert environments (Johnson 1992)

Remarks

Recent phylogenetic work suggests that it may be more closely related to some polystoechotids (J.D. Oswald, 16 July, 2009)

Print References

Adams, P. A. (1950). Notes on Oliarces clara Banks (Neuroptera, Othonidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 26:137-138 (Full Text...note actual date of MacNeill specimen referred to therein was April 25, 1949 rather than May 25, per here)

Banks, N. (1908). A new genus and species of Neuroptera. Ent. News, 19: 203-204. (Full Text)

Belkin, J. N. (1954). Additional records of Oliarces clara in California and Arizona (Neuroptera, Ithonidae). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 53(2):65-68 (Full Text)

Carpenter, F. M. (1951). The structure and relationships of Oliarces (Neuroptera). Psyche (Full Text)

Faulkner, D.K. (1990). Current knowledge of the biology of the moth-lacewing Oliarces clara Banks (Insecta: Neuroptera: Ithonidae). Pp. 197-203 In: Mansell, M.W.; Aspöck, H. (eds.). Advances in Neuropterology. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Neuropterology (3-4 February 1988, Berg en Dal, Kruger National Park, South Africa). South African Department of Agricultural Development, Pretoria. 298 pp.

Grebennikov, V. V. (2004). Grub-like larvae of Neuroptera (Insecta): a morphological review of the families Ithonidae and Polystoechotidae and a description of Oliarces clara. European Journal of Entomology, 101, 409-417. (Full Text)

Internet References

Wayne's Word page on Oliarces clara

Works Cited

1.	Species catalog of the Neuroptera, Megaloptera, and Raphidioptera of America North of Mexico Penny N.D., Adams P.A., Stange L.A. 1997. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 50: 39‒114.

Contributed by v belov on 16 July, 2009 - 12:26pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Aaron Schusteff, PaleoJon
Last updated 10 July, 2021 - 2:10pm

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