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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 » Green Mantidflies (Zeugomantispa) » Zeugomantispa minuta
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Mantidfly - Zeugomantispa minuta
Copyright © 2004 Cotinis

Mantidfly - Zeugomantispa minuta
Hwy 55 and Sedwick, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
July 9, 2004
Size: 16 mm
This was the smaller of two (a male?) I found at a light. I was only able to capture one. Posed. Body length was measured by photographing adjacent to a scale: 16 mm(head to tip of abdomen), 22 mm (head to tip of folded wings).

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Contributed by Cotinis on 13 July, 2004 - 5:42pm
Last updated 7 May, 2008 - 7:32pm

#4799 Identification – Zeugomantispa minuta
Identification confirmed.
… John D. Oswald, 11 May, 2007 - 12:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Like a mini Praying Mantis!
You guys in the east get all the good bugs!
… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 14 October, 2009 - 4:32am login or register to post comments

 
West too
See the Wasp Mantidfly here.
… Lynette Elliott, 14 October, 2009 - 9:05am login or register to post comments

cool
Patrick,

Way cool, next time you find one of these give me a call. Never seen anything like this before.
… Randy Emmitt, 7 October, 2006 - 7:05am login or register to post comments

 
Finding these
I've found a few at lights here in Durham (mid-summer), and one clambering about on goldenrod at dusk. Perhaps not terribly rare, just rather nocturnal.
… Cotinis, 7 October, 2006 - 10:37am login or register to post comments

Nice shot!
So jealous! Great shot! It's like a lacewing with vice grips:)
… Tony DiTerlizzi, 13 July, 2004 - 5:46pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree...
cool bug and great shot.
… Lynette Elliott, 4 January, 2006 - 2:58pm login or register to post comments

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