Does anyone know what kind of insect this is?
http://www.cirrusimage.com/images/whatizzit.jpg
I will be eternally grateful to anyone who can narrow this down to a genus!
Looks like a lacewing to me.
IANA entomologist, but its wings look too chunky and opaque for that. The pictures that I’m finding under chrysopa spp. have more elongated and nearly transparent wings.
http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T131022.HTM
Any hints on continent? Habitat?
Oh yeah…
Photo taken in August, near Chicago. About 1/8 - 1/4 inch long. Dozens of them in all hanging out together in tall grass and on the stems of various woody plants. At first I thought they were moths, but no.
Could you describe the manner of their flight? (it does look like a moth to me; does it fly like one?)
Definitely not a lacewing. It’s one of the true bugs (hemiptera/homoptera). I think (but I’m not certain) that it’s a leafhopper (Flatidae).
…Although it is possibly some sort of whitefly…
forget that; I think Blake has delivered the straight dope.
No doubt - A leafhopper.
Thanks, Blake. Definitely a flatid planthopper. Now if I could just pin down a genus…
Homoptera>flatidae>?
Is that Doug Yanega dood still around?
Thanks, all, for yer efforts!
Aha. Acanalonia conica.
Never mind, I found it.