Feb 6, 2025
Pleasing Picture-winged Antlion (Glenurus gratus), family Myrmeleontidae, order Neuroptera, TN, USA
Antlions are related to lacewings and mantidflies (This is not a dragonfly).
photograph by Kirsten Swadley Feinberg
seen from South Korea
seen from China
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seen from China
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Netherlands
seen from Brazil
seen from Canada
seen from United States
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seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Netherlands
seen from Bangladesh
Pleasing Picture-winged Antlion (Glenurus gratus), family Myrmeleontidae, order Neuroptera, TN, USA
Antlions are related to lacewings and mantidflies (This is not a dragonfly).
photograph by Kirsten Swadley Feinberg
Picture-winged antlion (Glenurus snowii) from the Sonoran desert. Arizona, 8/11/19
Antlions are best known for their sand-dwelling predatory larvae, but the winged adult forms can be pretty spectacular insects in their own right and I saw a huge abundance and diversify of them in the desert.