Chrysoperla

Chrysoperla

Adult C. mediterranea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Neuroptera
Family:	Chrysopidae
Subfamily:	Chrysopinae
Genus:	Chrysoperla Steinmann, 1964
Diversity
Over 60 species

Chrysoperla is a genus of green lacewings in the neuropteran family Chrysopidae. Therein they belong to the Chrysopini, the largest tribe of subfamily Chrysopinae.

Members of this genus and the genus Chrysopa are very common in North America and Europe. They share similar characteristics and some species have been moved from one genus to the other and back. Their larvae are predatory and feed on aphids and members of this genus have been used in biological pest control.^[1]

Chrysoperla species are sometimes nearly identical morphologically, but can be readily separated based on the vibration signals used to attract mates. For example, the southern European Chrysoperla mediterranea looks almost identical to its northern relative C. carnea (common green lacewing), but their courtship "songs" are very different; individuals of one species will not react to the other's vibrations.^[2]

Selected species

New species of Chrysoperla are still being described, particularly since the genus contains at least one cryptic species complex.

Chrysoperla adamsi (Henry, Wells & Pupedis, 1993)
Chrysoperla affinis
Chrysoperla agilis Henry, Brooks, Duelli & Johnson, 2003
Chrysoperla annae
Chrysoperla argentina
Chrysoperla asoralis
Chrysoperla bellatula
Chrysoperla brevicollis
Chrysoperla carnea – common green lacewing
Chrysoperla chusanina
Chrysoperla comanche (Banks, 1938)
Chrysoperla comans
Chrysoperla congrua
Chrysoperla decaryana
Chrysoperla defreitasi
Chrysoperla deserticola
Chrysoperla downesi (Smith, 1932)
Chrysoperla dozieri
Chrysoperla euneura
Chrysoperla exotera
Chrysoperla externa (Hagen, 1861)
Chrysoperla exul
Chrysoperla furcifera
Chrysoperla galapagoensis
Chrysoperla gallagheri
Chrysoperla genanigra
Chrysoperla hainanica
Chrysoperla harrisii (Fitch, 1855)
Chrysoperla insulata
Chrysoperla johnsoni (Henry, Wells & Pupedis, 1993)
Chrysoperla kolthoffi (Navas, 1927)
Chrysoperla longicaudata

Chrysoperla lucasina (Lacroix, 1912)
Chrysoperla lundbladi (Tjeder, 1939)
Chrysoperla maderensis (Tjeder, 1939)
Chrysoperla mediterranea (Hölzel, 1972)
Chrysoperla mexicana
Chrysoperla mutata (McLachlan, 1898)
Chrysoperla nigrinervis Brooks, 1994
Chrysoperla nipponensis
Chrysoperla nyerina
Chrysoperla oblita
Chrysoperla orestes
Chrysoperla pallida Henry, Brooks, Duelli & Johnson, 2002
Chrysoperla plicata
Chrysoperla plorabunda (Fitch, 1855)
Chrysoperla pudica
Chrysoperla qinlingensis
Chrysoperla raimundoi
Chrysoperla renoni
Chrysoperla renoni (Lacroix, 1933) (= C. ankylopteryformis)
Chrysoperla rotundata
Chrysoperla rufilabris (Burmeister, 1839)
Chrysoperla siamensis
Chrysoperla sillemi
Chrysoperla sola
Chrysoperla suzukii
Chrysoperla thelephora
Chrysoperla volcanicola
Chrysoperla vulgaris (Schneider, 1851)
Chrysoperla xizangana
Chrysoperla yulinica
Chrysoperla zastrowi

Footnotes

↑ New (2002), Engel & Grimaldi (2007)
↑ Henry et al. (1999)

References

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Engel, Michael S. & Grimaldi, David A. (2007): The neuropterid fauna of Dominican and Mexican amber (Neuropterida, Megaloptera, Neuroptera). American Museum Novitates 3587: 1–58. PDF fulltext
Henry, Charles S.; Brooks, Stephen J.; Johnson, James B. & Duelli, Peter (1999): Revised concept of Chrysoperla mediterranea (Hölzel), a green lacewing associated with conifers: courtship songs across 2800 kilometres of Europe (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Systematic Entomology 24(4): 335–350. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3113.1999.00085.x PDF fulltext
New, T. R. (2002): Prospects for extending the use of Australian lacewings in biological control. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 48(Supplement 2): 209–216. PDF fulltext

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