Dicromantispa moronei

Dicromantispa moronei is an extinct species of mantidfly in the neuropteran family Mantispidae known from a fossil found in the Caribbean.

[1] Dicromantispa moronei was described from a solitary female holotype fossil which is preserved as an inclusion in a transparent chunk of Dominican amber.

[2] The female was first studied by entomologists Michael Engel of the university of Kansas and David Grimaldi of the American Museum of Natural History with their 2007 type description of the species was published in the natural sciences journal American Museum Novitates.

The other species, D. electromexicana, is from the similarly aged Mexican amber of Chiapas, Mexico.

The head is lacking an occipital margin and the antennae are a light brown in coloration.