Home
Unidentified
Insects
Lacewings (Neuroptera)
Unidentified
Can you identify this sighting?
Identification history
| Unidentified | 8 Jan 2023 | TimL |
Identify this sighting
Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.
User's notes
Additional close-up detail for sighting 4463213. The first image shows a close-up of the wing's light brown coloured pterostigma, which is a thickened and coloured cell in the outer wing. The apparent purpose of the pterostigma, being a heavier section of the wing in comparison to nearby sections, is to assist the lacewing in gliding and in raising the insect's critical flight speed. Without the pterostigma, self-exciting vibrations or flapping would set in on the wing after a certain critical speed, reducing flight speed and making gliding impossible.
Be the first to comment
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 3 Jan 2023 08:23 AM Recorded on
- TimL Recorded by
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Confirmed by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes
