Jan 29, 2018
#1293 - Drepanacra binocula - Australian Variable Lacewing
Small Brown Lacewings from the Hemerobiidae family, native to Australia, but widespread in New Zealand too (but it’s not clear if they got there by themselves or had help). Voracious predators of psyllids and whitefly when young, including the shining spleenwort whitefly, Trialeurodes asplenii if this NZ factsheet is anything to go by.
The variable part in the common name refers to the wing markings, which can differ widely, and led to the naming of many now invalid subspecies.
My carport, in Perth.