Thread subject: Diptera.info :: What a Neuroptera!

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 24-12-2007 17:27
#1
I have red about this insects, but never seen it. Mantispidae as far as I remember.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 24-12-2007 17:43
#2
Well, maybe your memory doe snot reach far, but in this case it reaches far enough. Merry Christmas!

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 24-12-2007 18:10
#3
hey! Smile

This is one of my favourite families in Neuroptera: MANTISPIDAE. Grin

Mantispa sp. Smile


You must check my Mantispa sytiriaca here:
http://www.flickr...s/omeuceu/ see below. Grin

Posted by Isidro on 24-12-2007 18:41
#4
Only one time I've seen one... into muy own house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My father mistaked it with a mosquito and killed it with spray SadSadSadSad now is in my collection....

In Spain are three species, but I don't know how many in west Russia...

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 24-12-2007 18:54
#5
Frown so, you never saw one alive. The movement of mantispid is so gracious! Wonderful animal.

Posted by Isidro on 24-12-2007 19:50
#6
Yes, it was alive, it dead few minutes after.... and years after a friends pass to me a live exemplar but not in this natural habitat...

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 24-12-2007 20:10
#7
I saw it at 3 am. Grin I will do more nocturnes in next year, and maybe on 28th this month.