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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies (Neuroptera) » Lacewings and Allies (Hemerobiiformia) » Green Lacewings (Chrysopidae) » Typical Green Lacewings (Chrysopinae) » Ant-loving Lacewings (Belonopterygini) » Abachrysa » Abachrysa eureka
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Abachrysa eureka
Copyright © 2006 Gretchen Grammer

Abachrysa eureka
Ocean Springs, Gulf Park Estates, Jackson County, Mississippi, USA
July 24, 2006
Size: ~20 mm
This lacewing (I think it's a lacewing) came to a black light. The body has a bluish tinge you can't see very well in the photograph. It's about one and a half times as large as a green lacewing. Can anyone help with the identification?

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Abachrysa eureka Unidentified Lacewing - Abachrysa eureka
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Contributed by Gretchen Grammer on 24 July, 2006 - 6:48pm
Last updated 25 August, 2006 - 11:11am

#66422 Identification – Abachrysa eureka
Identification confirmed.
… John D. Oswald, 18 December, 2008 - 9:24am login or register to post comments

A lucky hit on this one!
Very, very cool--looks like a lacewing from the Mexican Day of the Dead festival, almost skeletal. I took a look at Neuroptera of Florida, figuring that this must be a member of the Chrysopidae, but not genus Chrysoperla, the rather ordinary-looking green lacewings. My first Google image search for the first genus listed on Neuroptera of Florida (Abachrysa) got a match from Gallery of Florida Insects--Abachrysa eureka, and Nearctica.com says it is a monotypic genus, with that one species, Abachrysa eureka Banks 1931.
… Cotinis, 24 July, 2006 - 9:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thanks very much for identificaniton! I checked out the Gallery of Florida Insects and I agree with you.
… Gretchen Grammer, 25 July, 2006 - 6:35am login or register to post comments

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