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wasp mantidfly
Climaciella brunnea (Say, 1824)


Taxonomic Rank: Hexapoda (including Insecta) > Neuroptera > Mantispidae > Climaciella
Category: Insects: Invertebrate Predators

8 Records
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1475065 Adult(s)
5255054 Adult(s)
5347071 Adult(s)
5347072 Adult(s)
5364263 Adult(s)

Adult western mantidfly (Climaciella brunnea).

5382027 Adult(s)

Adult feeding on black blowfly prey

 

5382028 Adult(s)

Adult feeding (lower right) on black blowfly prey.  Two Polistes wasps that it mimics are in this picture to the left.  All were found on a willow limb with seeping wetwood.  Photograph taken June 12, 2008.

 

5382029 Adult(s)

Two adults are feeding (left) on black blowfly prey.  Two Polistes wasps (probably Polistes apachus) that it mimics are in this picture to the right.  All were found on a willow limb with seeping wetwood.  Photograph taken June 12, 2008.

 



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