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Family
Nymphidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Diamond-banded Lacewings that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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Body length 25mm
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Diamond-banded Lacewing is pale yellowish brown to ivory in colours, sometimes tinged with pale green. Eyes dark grey to
black. Antennae pale yellowish green.
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This Lacewing can be distinguished by the pterostigma are bright pinkish red in
colour. The abdomen has prominent dark red diamond-shaped mark on each segment.
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- Photos taken in Yugarapul Park
on Nov 2009.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 540.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus &
Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p322.
- 3. Lacewings - Queensland Museum, 2011.
- 4. A
revision of the Australian Nymphidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) - TR New
1981, Australian Journal of Zoology 29(5) 707 - 750.
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