Mantis lacewings (Neuroptera: Mantispidae) are prominent and charismatic predatory representatives of Insecta. Nevertheless, the group surprisingly scarce in Paleogene deposits after a relative abundance specimens known from Cretaceous. Here we present Mantispa? damzenogedanica sp. nov., representing first adult Mantispidae described Baltic amber only Eocene mantispid hitherto preserved amber. ...

The European free-tailed bat, Tadarida teniotis, forages in uncluttered airspace by using intense narrow-band echolocation calls with low frequency (11-12 kHz), and feeds on relatively large flying insects, mainly (90% by volume) of the tympanate orders Lepidoptera and Neuroptera. The use of low-frequency echolocation calls without strong harmonics appears to be a specialization for long-range ...