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Entanoneura batesella
Photo#68321
Copyright © 2006
Machele White
Mantidfly -
Entanoneura batesella
Lady Lake, Lake County, Florida, USA
August 1, 2006
Size: 26mm-body
Came to light. Possibly the same species as
?
Images of this individual:
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Contributed by
Machele White
on 3 August, 2006 - 7:05am
Last updated 26 December, 2020 - 12:05am
Moved
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Entanoneura
.
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Jonathan Hoskins
, 26 December, 2020 - 12:05am
Moved
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Dicromantispa
.
I'll let those with more expertise determine whether or not a species page is warranted.
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Ken Wolgemuth
, 10 September, 2020 - 4:42pm
Entanoneura
This is Entanoneura (most likely batesella).
It seems that there is an isolated area of batesella's range in Florida, which has been overlooked and undocumented so far.
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Vladislav Grigorenko
, 10 September, 2020 - 4:27pm
Entrnoneura
Fantastic! I knew that it wasn't something that had been documented before. I suppose it is most likely to be an introduction from the Neotropics?
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Russell Pfau
, 10 September, 2020 - 4:37pm
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Mantidflies
per Dr. Oswald until/unless an alternative is determined.
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Jonathan Hoskins
, 30 August, 2020 - 4:57am
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Dicromantispa
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Ken Wolgemuth
, 15 February, 2020 - 11:18am
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Dicromantispa sayi
.
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Ken Wolgemuth
, 15 February, 2020 - 10:56am
Different species
This has got to be a different species than what has been documented in the U.S. It has several unique features:
The color (brown and yellow), number of forks in wing venation (a dozen or more wishbones), and length/shape of neck (shorter, stouter, and curved) make these really distinct.
Compare side-by-side with the
typical Dicromantispa sayi
I've only seen two others like this:
here
and
here
If someone can collect one of these unusual Florida specimens and send it to me, I can sequence the DNA to assist with identification.
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Russell Pfau
, 15 February, 2020 - 9:58am
I'm assuming that it's safe in Dicromantispa...
...based on Dr. Oswald's ID below. But if that's not the case let me know and I'll move it to Mantispidae.
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Ken Wolgemuth
, 15 February, 2020 - 10:58am
I'm not certain...
...but I'm pretty sure it's Mantispinae and certain it's Mantispidae.
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Russell Pfau
, 15 February, 2020 - 11:06am
My "two cents"
I'm a bit rusty on all the taxonomic subtleties of
Dicromantispa
and its relation to similar-looking taxa, but I'd hazard to say this would probably be best placed as robust individual of
D. sayi
(perhaps a gravid female) based on "current" circumscriptions (i.e. presuming things haven't changed since I studied the situation in 2013).
Note that
D. sayi
is a variable species, with at least two color forms...for details see "Identification" and "Remarks" headings on
this BugGuide info page
. So it's not clear what the notion a "typical
D. sayi
", in the vernacular sense, would be. But the brown & yellow color and large number of "wishbones" here seem quite compatible with the southern form of
D. sayi
...as does the (vaguely) 3-banded antennae (better seen in 2nd photo).
And, just to be clear, the "wishbones" characters is something I proposed in the remarks & comments
here
...and while the idea may be useful, I don't know whether formal mantispid taxonomists would fully embrace them. ;-) Wishbones can be difficult to count without a clear transverse view of a single fore-wing edge (overlap can often make it hard to clearly discern relevant "wishbones" from the morass of other veins when two wings are held closely together). Also, wishbones get smaller and smaller towards the wing apex, and it can get difficult to decide what constitutes a "bonafide wishbone" (i.e. because the forked portion can become quite small). Sometimes the distal-most wishbones (near the wing-tip) are separated by a(n unforked) linear vein reaching the margin, so I (somewhat arbitrarily) adopted a convention of including only
consecutive
wishbones in my counts.
But in this post the 2nd photo gives a good view, and like Russell, I too count
at least
12. There's some ambiguity here as to how many more than 12 there are here, since the "13th wishbone" (I count starting from wing base to tip) is very small, and arguably nested in a larger "14th wishbone".
Finally, I don't know whether the neck shape & length here is diagnostic of something different...they look within range of variation to my eye. (Good old variation...the bane of dreams for a "tidy" taxonomy! ;-)
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Aaron Schusteff
, 15 February, 2020 - 2:26pm
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Dicromantispa
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John S. Ascher
, 11 March, 2015 - 8:58am
For what it's worth...
We only have two species of
Dicromantispa
in our area...
D. sayi
and
D. interrupta
. Both occur in Florida. My best guess here would be
D. sayi
, though your earlier post with the eggs gets closer to the borderline between the two as far as I can tell.
You may be interested in the comments appearing in the post below concerning how to distinguish the two species...and the special (somewhat intermediate) form of
D. interrupta
that occurs in peninsular Florida:
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Aaron Schusteff
, 22 December, 2013 - 4:28pm
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John R. Maxwell
, 5 January, 2009 - 12:23pm
#68321 Identification – Dicromantispa sp.
Identification.
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John D. Oswald
, 5 January, 2009 - 12:20pm