#nemoptera

[nemfrog]

Nemoptera. Cassell's natural history. v.6. 1882.

[sandra1219]

Nemoptera bipennis. A species of slow flying insect in the family Nemopteridae or spoonwings. Portugal, Spain & France.

[owls-n-elderberries]

nemo by remus3374

[psifr]

more doodles - trying to figure out how he walks/sits/etc! like rapunzel, his hair changes length depending on how i draw it............

[psifr]

this is actually the original version of the design.. but then i remembered i already have a dragon character with the exact same colors, but with orange as the primary instead e me;;

[psifr]

a potential faerie ruki design!! he's small and very grumpy.

[libutron]

This insect, which seems a mixture of dragonflies and butterflies, is Nemoptera bipennis (Neuroptera - Nemopteridae).

The Neuroptera are characterized by having a pair of membranous forewings heavily veined, typically colored with green and straw white; and vestigial hindwings (no ability to fly) reduced to a narrow band with three longitudinal ribs which expand at the end forming a corkscrew [1].

Nemoptera bipennis is commonly named the Wood Fairy or Thread-winged-Lacewing, known as Duende in Spanish which translates as an elf or a fairy.

This species is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula and not very common; only two other species of the genus can be found in southeastern Europe [2].

Photo credit: ©Gigi Sebastian Rusel

[entophiles]

Thread Lacewing - Nemoptera sinuata by Camerar on Flickr.