Apertochrysa ariadne
Authors/Creators
- 1. Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zu ̈ rcherstrasse 111, CH- 8903 Birmensdorf ZH, Switzerland. peter. duelli @ wsl. ch; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8862 - 8262
- 2. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Unit 3043, 75 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269 - 3043, USA. charles. henry @ uconn. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7297 - 9703
Description
Apertochrysa ariadne (Hölzel, 1978)
Anisochrysa ariadne Hölzel, 1978: original description
Mallada ariadne (Hölzel, 1978): Brooks & Barnard, 1990
Dichochrysa ariadne (Hölzel, 1978): Aspöck & Hölzel, 1996
Pseudomallada ariadne (Hölzel, 1978): Duelli & Henry, 2020
Apertochrysa ariadne (Hölzel, 1978): Breitkreuz et al., 2021
Diagnosis: Available material: 7♀, 6♂ (Hölzel collection NMW; Crete)
A small species with a bluish-green body (Fig. 13). No interantennal spot and dark marks on scape or vertex. No dark marks on thorax, abdomen, or wing base. Palps very dark brown. Face (frons, clypeus, scape) whitish. Subantennal sutures intensely red. Vertex yellowish-green. Female forewings 12.5–13 mm, male forewings 10.5– 11.5 mm. Costal crossveins dark at both ends, but never entirely dark. Furwing males (double set of setae on wing veins). Veins of im cell less than 20% dark, dark portion mostly in one piece. Gradate crossveins in both sexes darker than longitudinal veins.
Distribution: Apertochrysa ariadne is endemic to the Greek island of Crete. It was collected on deciduous trees such as Quercus sp., Acer campestre, and Crataegus sp. (Hölzel, 1978). It seems to be most closely related to Ap2, in spite of the lack of dark marks on head and body.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NMW
- Scientific name authorship
- Holzel
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Neuroptera
- Family
- Chrysopidae
- Genus
- Apertochrysa
- Species
- ariadne
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Apertochrysa ariadne (Holzel, 1978) sec. Duelli & Henry, 2022
References
- Holzel, H. (1978) Anisochrysa ariadne n. sp. - eine neue Chrysopiden-Spezies aus Kreta (Planipennia, Chrysopidae). Nachrichtenblatt der Bayerischen Entomologen, 27, 22 - 24.
- Brooks, S. J. & Barnard, P. C. (1990) The green lacewings of the world: a generic review (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, Entomology, 59, 117 - 286.
- Aspock, H. & Holzel, H. (1996) The Neuropteroidea of North Africa, Mediterranean Asia and of Europe: a comparative review (Insecta). In: Canard, M., Aspock, H. & Mansell, M. W. (Eds.), Pure and Applied Research in Neuropterology. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Neuropterology. Meeting, Cairo, Egypt, 2 - 6 May 1994, Privately printed, Toulouse, pp. 31 - 86.
- Duelli, P. & Henry, C. S. (2020) A species continuum exists between Pseudomallada prasinus and P. abdominalis (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae). Zootaxa, 4845 (3), 357 - 374. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4845.3.3
- Breitkreuz, L., Duelli, P. & Oswald, J. D. (2021) Apertochrysa Tjeder, 1966, a new senior synonym of Pseudomallada Tsukaguchi, 1995 (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae: Chrysopinae). Zootaxa, 4966 (2), 215 - 225. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4966.2.8