Ditaxis biseriata

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Ditaxis biseriata
Ditaxis biseriata

Ditaxis biseriata

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Reticulated winged (Neuroptera)
Family : Catchy (Mantispidae)
Subfamily : Mantispinae
Genre : Ditaxis
Type : Ditaxis biseriata
Scientific name
Ditaxis biseriata
( Westwood , 1852)

Ditaxis biseriata is a lacewings from the family of mantispidae (Mantispidae). The species occurs in two states in Australia .

features

Ditaxis biseriata has a brownish basic color and the body structure typical of the captive: The prothorax is long and thin, the legs of the first pair of legs, which sit just behind the head, are designed as tentacles. In the resting state, these are folded in so that the animals stand on two pairs of legs, as is usual with captives. The head is triangular and has clearly protruding compound eyes . The wing pairs are typically reticulated and mostly transparent. The feelers are extremely short.

Occurrence

Ditaxis biseriata is a very rare species and occurs in Australia in the states of New South Wales on the southeast coast and Queensland on the northeast coast. The type specimen was found in Moreton Bay (Australia, Queensland).

Way of life

The adults live predatory on other insects, nothing is known about the pre-imaginal stages.

Synonyms

  • Mantispa biseriata Westwood, 1852.
  • Drepanicus biseriata (Westwood, 1852) F. Brauer placed the species in the genus Drepanicus in 1867

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ditaxis biseriata (Westwood, 1852). (No longer available online.) Australian Government; Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts ., Formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 26, 2008 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.environment.gov.au  
  2. ↑ JO Westwood: On the genus Mantispa, with descriptions of various new species. in: Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (ns) 1: 252-270 [263]
  3. ↑ F. Brauer: Contribution to the knowledge of the mantispid genera. in: Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 17: 281-286 [285], 1867

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