Chrysopa Leach 1815
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
- 2. School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China. & State Key Laboratory of Efficient Production of Forest Resources, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China.
Description
Genus Chrysopa Leach, 1815
Chrysopa Leach, 1815: 138. Type species: Hemerobius perla Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by ICZN, 1954: 3.
Aelops Billberg, 1820: 95. Type species: Hemerobius chrysops Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Tjeder, 1966: 351.
Emerobius Costa, 1834: 72. Type species: Hemerobius chrysops Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy.
Melanops Doumerc, 1861: 192. Type species: Chrysopa parvula Doumerc, 1861, by monotypy.
Chrysopisca McLachlan, 1875: 23. Type species: Chrysopisca minuta McLachlan, 1875, by monotypy.
Cintameva Navás, 1914a: 214. Type species: Cintameva venulosa Navás, 1914, by original designation.
Minva Navás, [1919a] 1920: 288. Type species: Minva punctata Navás, 1920, by original designation and monotypy.
Polyphlebia Navás, 1935: 88. Type species: Polyphlebia punctata Navás, 1936, by original designation and monotypy.
Metachrysopa Steinmann, 1964: 264. Type species: Chrysopa septempunctata Wesmael, 1841, by original designation.
Nigrochrysopa Steinmann, 1964: 264. Type species: Chrysopa formosa Brauer, 1850, by original designation.
Parachrysopa Séméria, 1983: 310. Type species: Hemerobius pallens Rambur, 1838, by original designation and monotypy.
Furcochrysa De Freitas & Penny, 2000: 167. Type species: Furcochrysa allata De Freitas & Penny, 2000, by original designation.
Diagnosis. Medium to large sized. Body mostly green. Head usually extensively marked with black spots or stripes; palps tapered apically; mandibles broad, asymmetrical; antenna shorter than forewing. Pronotum unmarked or with black markings; meso- and metanotum marked with black markings or unmarked. Two series of gradate crossveins, basal inner gradate meeting PsM. Male genitalia with tignum absent or small; gonapsis absent; entoprocessus broad basally with dorsal horn; mediuncus arcuate, tapering apically, separated from gonarcus; gonarcus long, narrow, sometimes with a pair of short median horns; gonosetae very long, numerous (Brooks & Banard 1990; Breitkreuz 2018).
Distribution. Cosmopolitan.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Leach
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Neuroptera
- Family
- Chrysopidae
- Genus
- Chrysopa
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysopa Leach, 1815 sec. Wang, Lai, Zhang & Liu, 2025
References
- Tjeder, B. (1966) Neuroptera - Planipennia. The Lace - wings of Southern Africa. 5. Family Chrysopidae. South African Animal Life, 12, 228-534.
- Navas, L. (1914 a) Neuropteros nuevos o poco conocidos (Segunda y Tercera serie). Memorias de la Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona, 11, 105-119 + 193 - 215.
- Navas, L. (1935) Insectos de Berberia. Serie 12. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica de Espana, 18, 77-100.
- Navas, L. (1936) Nevropteres et insectes voisins. Chine et pays environnants. Neuvieme [IX] serie. Notes d'Entomologie Chinoise, 3, 37-62 + 117 - 132.
- Steinmann, H. (1964) The Chrysopa species (Neuroptera) of Hungary. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 56, 257-266.
- Wesmael, C. (1841) Notice sur les Hemerobides Belgique. Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, 8, 203-221.
- Breitkreuz, L. C. V. (2018) Systematics and evolution of the family Chrysopidae (Neuroptera), with an emphasis on their morphology. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, xxix + 661 pp.