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Dicromantispa sayi

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ3007861 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dicromantispa sayi, or Say's mantidfly is a species of mantidfly in the family Mantispidae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, Central America, and North America.

Identification

Head: Brown to black with pale yellow marks. Face has a longitudinal yellow stripe each side of center; middle dark area appearing as a dark stripe, sometimes incomplete. Pattern of yellow oblong spots on top of head; can be obscure. Eyes multi-colored.

Antenna: Brown except segment 1 yellowish, more so on underside.

Thorax: Neck (prothorax) long and slender, more cone-shaped at head. Cream-colored patch at base and end of neck; rest yellowish-brown to dark brown. Usually with a light or dark colored longitudinal stripe down center.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Dicromantispa sayi” as species of insect. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 113-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Dicromantispa, sayi and species can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Dicromantispa sayi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.