Spoon-winged lacewing – Rassim Khelifa

Spoon-winged lacewing

El Kala, Algeria

Spoon-winged lacewing near Lake Noir, Northeast Algeria. I captured this picture while I was filming a short documentary on the dragonflies of the region. The extraordinary elongated shape of the hindwing has been suggested to play a role in dispersing species-specific chemical pheromones.