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Family Myrmeleontidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Silver Giant Lacewings that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Silver Lacewing - adult, body
length 35mm
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- Silver Lacewings are one of the most beautiful insects that we ever saw. They are large in size, with silvery-grey
colour body. They are the very good flyer comparing with the other Lacewings
species that we found. Their two pairs of large wings are equal in size. They
may miss-recognized as dragonflies when flying. However, they fly in a lower
speed and rest most of the time. They cannot turn quickly in the air as
dragonfly.
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 - Photo: Claire deLacey, Sydney
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- Steve Chamberlain from Sydney sent us this photo and advised that
this photo was taken on
July 2004 in Royal National Park (just south of Sydney).
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- In Dec 2005, we saw at least two of them in Karawatha Forest, Brisbane. We
did not saw them in any other places. They rest like a Owl-fly.
But its short and clubbed antenna tell that it is in the Myrmeleontidae
family.
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- Then we saw this lacewing a few times in Karawatha Forest during summer
season. They like to rest on dead tree and dry stem.
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- The larvae are huge and black, with round, spiny and flattened body. Their
head is big with large jaws. They live in debris on ground.
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- Reference and Link:
- 1. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus &
Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p324.
- 2. Dragonflies
and Lacewings - Australian Museum 2004
- 3. Stilbopteryx costalis
- Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources
Study.
- 4. A new genus and key to the species of Australian
Stilbopterygidae (Neuroptera). Riek, E.F. (1968), J. Aust. Entomol.
Soc. 7: 105-108.
- 5. The family Stilbopterygidae (Neuroptera)
in Australia. Riek, E.F. (1976), J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 15:
297-302
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