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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies (Neuroptera) » Lacewings and Allies (Hemerobiiformia) » Brown Lacewings (Hemerobiidae) » Microminae » Micromus » Micromus posticus
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Micromus posticus
Copyright © 2005 Cotinis

Micromus posticus
Durham County, North Carolina, USA
January 5, 2005
Size: 9 mm
Came to my porch light. Size was measured as 9 mm, head to tip of folded wings. Looking at this diagram from the University of Florida (see comments), this might be a Micromus.

Compare to this rather different Brown Lacewing, with much larger eyes--might be a Hemerobius:


(See comments on identification.)

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Contributed by Cotinis on 7 January, 2005 - 5:33pm
Last updated 13 October, 2022 - 5:15pm

Moved
Moved from Brown Lacewings.
… Mike Boone, 18 August, 2006 - 11:40am login or register to post comments

#9565 Identification -- Micromus posticus
This is the brown lacewing Micromus posticus (Walker, 1853). For accounts of its biology see Bibliography of the Neuropterida (http://insects.tamu.edu/research/neuropterida/neur_bibliography/bibhome.html) reference numbers (r#) 4196 and 5621.
… John D. Oswald, 18 August, 2006 - 11:38am login or register to post comments

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