Porismus strigatus
Pied Lacewing at Red Hill Nature Reserve
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| Porismus strigatus | MichaelMulvaney | 8 Jun 2024 | |
| Porismus strigatus | Miranda | 8 Jun 2024 | |
| Unverified | Miranda | 5 Jun 2024 |
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Old photo from 2012 - not very good as it was taken with a zoom lens up into a tree.
8 comments
6 Jun 2024
@Miranda : The butterfly appears to be a female Heteronympha merope. This butterfly does not make a cocoon, so what is the relationship between it and the cocoon and its larva?
Did you break open the cocoon to reveal the inhabitant?
Did you break open the cocoon to reveal the inhabitant?
6 Jun 2024
Yes sorry it's not very clear - @HelenCross is right, I think there is an adult moth head down in the middle of the chewed bit feeding on sap. There were dozens of common brown butterflies feeding from these chewed patches, plus this moth.
7 Jun 2024
I thought it was a caterpillar with the head capsule at the bottom and the claspers at the top ?
8 Jun 2024
OK I think this is solved - @Christine you're right, it's a pied lacewing. If you look closely at the cropped image you can see that its head is hidden under a sliver of wood with an antenna poking out. So it looks like it has a blunt head like a moth, rather than a 'neck' and pointed head like a lacewing. That's why I thought it was a moth. Thanks everyone!
Location information
- Coordinates 149.116311-35.329854
- Altitude 699.5m
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Red Hill, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 21 Mar 2012 06:51 PM Recorded on
- Miranda Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Collections
- Miranda Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Other Lacewings (several families) Lacewings (Neuroptera) Insects Porismus strigatus
Species information
- Porismus strigatus Scientific name
- Pied Lacewing Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1015m Recorded at altitude
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