Lacewing with Claws? Please help I.D.

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Lily_love Central, AL(Zone 7b) Oct 01, 2012

I googled for photos of lacewings, but don't see anywhere that mention these type of bug has claws-like front legs like those of Praying Mantis. What's are they? I capture a brief video of the intriguing looking thing will upload to utube in the near future.

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greenthumb99 Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a) Oct 01, 2012

Its a Mantisfly or Mantispid, perhaps Zeugomantispa minuta.

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kwanjin (Zone 7a) Oct 02, 2012

I've never seen one of these before. How neat. Share you pics in BugFiles?

http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/2396/

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Lily_love Central, AL(Zone 7b) Oct 02, 2012

kwanjin, neither have I before seen these. I'll share some of the decent pix. on DG's bugfiles later this evening. Thank you for the suggestion. greenthumb99, many thanks for the prompt I.D.

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