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Family: Mantispidae (mantisflies)
Life
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Mantispidae, Wakkerstroom, Mpumalanga, South
Africa. [image Peter Webb ©, from
iNaturalist] |
Mantispids have evolved predatory forelegs in the same way as praying mantises. Larvae
feed on eggs and young of spiders.
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