Bug-winged gillman

With ice powers!

From Dragon 244# article proposing multiple new flying races

Kiiratam 

Ashiera: dragonfly-winged creature-from-the-black-lagoon things.
Fainil (Night Flyers): a drow/tanar’ri bat-winged cambion type. I like the drow having a bunch of cambionspawn with distinct phenotypes.
Masgai: Insectoids that fly without wings because of ancient descent from the Plane of Elemental Air. 
Telvar: bird-winged and -faced mountain barbarians. I’ve always remembered them as more specific avariel, but checking the article shows that they’re not actually elves. Go figure.
Xakhun: drow/wood elf sky pirates. They’re more a variant than a full race, since they’re wood elves + 10% MR and no drow sunlight vulnerability. But the article does have three kits specifically for them. For when you need airships in the drow invasion force.

Masgai are the most sinister neutral antagonists I’ve seen. They basically seek to ensnare every planet they can into their empire, but despite their short lifespan they play the long game and usually set themselves up as revered protectors to the point power is given to them by the grateful. Despite their disdain for unnecessary  conflict, the military runs all society. 

Considering how  in real life ant colonies tend to peacefully divy up territory, an expansionist but mostly nonviolent insectoid race makes sense.

Also I now want a race variant that are-flight adapted but are born without wings and must craft them through various possible means.

The ashiera, the flying gillman , are the most standout though. You really get the feeling of prehistory from their designs, and their powers would have been extra effective in the tropical primal past.  I’d make them not immune to their own ice powers, because that makes things more interesting.