Kalama tricornis

I found this my first lacebug by suction in a sometimes-grazed lowland meadow that has been taken of agricultural production within the last few years.

Kalama tricornis, Wendling Beck Environment Project (Norfolk, UK), 25th August 2025

I set some pitfall traps in the same spot and retrieved them 24 hours later, and they contained two more. Much of the meadow had recently been mown so these were in a small island of uncut meadow, which I imagine may have increased the density of bugs in this spot.

2x Kalama tricornis, Wendling Beck Environment Project (Norfolk, UK), 25th-26th August 2025

There was another in a pitfall trap at a different location, more recently taken out of arable production ready for heathland restoration. At the moment I'm doing short-duration dry pitfall trapping which has a number of advantages (short duration means a more easily manageable volume of catch, dry means it's quick and easy to set up, set down and extract the catch, and I can usually photograph the catch alive and release any accidental non-target catch alive. The disadvantage of dry trapping is that some of the predatory species caught can sometimes kill and eat other items in the catch, though the short duration seems to mitigate against this, as does putting in a few leaves for things to hide in. On this occasion there had clearly been a kill, as all I found of the lacebug in this trap was a single antenna segment and most of one wing. The antennae of this species are quite distinctive so I think this is enough to confirm that it's this species again.

Kalama tricornis antenna and wing, Wendling Beck Environment Project (Norfolk, UK), 25th-26th August 2025