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- The Mantid Lacewings are from small to medium side. They are sometimes known as Mantis
Flies. Their forelegs, head and thorax look like Preying Mantid but they have the
typical clear membranous wings. They can be found in bush. They are active at
night. Sometime the
attached to house by window lights.
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- Adults are active predators, chasing
prey with their spiny forelegs. Usually they are pink in colour but some
species are bright coloured. Some mimic social wasps. Larvae are parasitise,
some parasite on spider egg sacs and some on social wasp larvae.
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- Mantid Lacewing, Mantis Fly
 
- Ditaxis biseriata, body length 30mm
- This Mantid Lacewing has the pinkish wings each with a pink
pterostigma. We found the above lacewing in our backyard.
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- Reference and Link:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 533.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus &
Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p319.
- 3. Wildlife
of greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum, p99.
- 4. Lacewings
- by Charlma Phillips, Forest Health Scientist, Forest Insects, ForestrySA.
- 5. Ditaxis biseriata
- Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological
Resources Study.
- 6. A revision of the Australian Mantispidae (Insecta : Neuroptera) -
KJ Lambkin 1986, Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 34(116) 1 - 142
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