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Family Nymphidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Blue Eyes Lacewings that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia. They are also known as Common
Lacewing.
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- Eggs of Blue Eyes Lacewing
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- We found a lot of Blue Eyes Lacewings in Brisbane bushland in mid summer.
They have a pair of transparent wings of about equal size. When flying, may be mistaken
as dragonflies. But their wings are fold in tent shape whish is
different from dragonflies and damselflies. They can also distinguished by
their long antenna.
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- Adult body is orange-brown in colour, with iridescent grey eyes. The
moniliform antennae are black with pale apex. Legs are pale yellow. Their transparence wings are long with a white marking on the wing
tips. They are usually found hiding in dense vegetations. They are not very
good flier, usually fly slowly to two or three metes away when disturbed. When
rest, they hang under leaves.
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- They lay white eggs arranged in 'U' shape near houses and fences.
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- Photo: Keith Power, Toowoomba
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- A closer look of the Blue Eyes Lacewing.
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- Photo by: Keith Power, Toowoomba Larvae
raised by : Sue Ellis, Toowoomba
- Lacewing larvae just hatched.
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- The larvae are litter dwellers, they cover themselves with debris. They are predators for other
small insects. They hunt under logs or debris. The larvae of this Nymphidae
family has one internal tooth on each mandible.
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- Reference and Link:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 530.
- 2. Wildlife
of greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum, p99.
- 3. Notes on the Common Lacewing (Nymphes myrmeleonides) - John
Stumm, Butterfly and Other Invertebrates Club,
Newsletter Issue 38, Sep 2005, page 6.
- 4. A
revision of the Australian Nymphidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) - TR New
1981, Australian Journal of Zoology 29(5) 707 - 750.
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