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brown lacewing - small dark-colored lacewing fly

lacewing, lacewing fly - any of two families of insects with gauzy wings (Chrysopidae and Hemerobiidae); larvae feed on insect pests such as aphids

family Hemerobiidae, Hemerobiidae - brown lacewings

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The studied material was collected from cocoons of the brown lacewing, Notiobiella cixiiformis.

First host record for Acanthaegilips (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Anacharitinae) and description of a new species from Venezuela

Review of the brown lacewing genus Biramus (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae: Hemerobiinae), with the description of a new species from Costa Rica and Panama.

Hemerobiidae (Neuroptera) en la region del medio-oeste del estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil

No specimens of a previously-common pecan aphid parasitoid were detected, only an occasional green or brown lacewing was captured and no specimens were detected of several species of coccinellids, a mirid, syrphids, and an anthocorid that previously had been important predators in both pecan and crape myrtle.

Impact of harmonia axyridis (coleoptera: coccinellidae) on native arthropod predators in pecan and crape myrtle

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