Split-eyed Owlfly: S2, Female, profile

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Net-winged Insects (Neuroptera)

Family:

Owlfly (Ascalaphidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Split-eyed Owlfly (Megacmonotus magnus)

This Photo:

🔍S2, Female, profile🔎

Thank you John Luck for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
This has to be the platypus of the insect world. Damselfly wings & tail, butterfly head & antennae and massive eyes from who knows where.
Thank you to Ken Harris for pointing out this specimen is a male. Ken said "Only the male has the forked and tufted prominence on a front segment of its abdomen"

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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