Black-striped Mantis Lacewing
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Black-striped Mantis Lacewing (Campion tenuistrigus)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Net-winged Insects (Neuroptera)
Family: Mantidfly (Mantispidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Black-striped Mantis Lacewing (Campion tenuistrigus)
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Thank you Frank Pierce (FankPierce) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~6.5 mm long. Smaller with quite different wing venation to our other Campion.
Also having a notable black stripe down it's side.
Copyright © 2021-2026 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 09-Oct-2021
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.