Thread subject: Diptera.info :: What a Neuroptera!
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 24-12-2007 18:27
#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 18:43
#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 19:10
#3
hey! :)
This is one of my favourite families in Neuroptera: MANTISPIDAE. :d
Mantispa sp. :)
You must check my Mantispa sytiriaca here:
http://www.flickr...s/omeuceu/ see below. :D
Posted by Isidro on 24-12-2007 19:41
#4
Only one time I've seen one... into muy own house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My father mistaked it with a mosquito and killed it with spray :(:(:(:( 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 19:54
#5
:| so, you never saw one alive. The movement of mantispid is so gracious! Wonderful animal.
Posted by Isidro on 24-12-2007 20:50
#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 21:10
#7
I saw it at 3 am. :D I will do more nocturnes in next year, and maybe on 28th this month.