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Mantis fly

Photo by sunnyjosef
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15mm in length. This one flew in at nite to land on a windowpane.

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Comments (16)

Thank you Leonardo Castro and DrNamgyalT.Sherpa....
Extraordinary! Nature has no limits... Thanks for sharing, sunnyjosef!!
Quick work, sunnyjoself, wonderful photo.
Thank you Aron G and Reza Hashemizadeh for the positive ID
Hi there. This is actually a mantisfly (or mantidfly), which is in the family Mantispidae. Beautiful photos and a super find! :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantispidae

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