Apochrysa wagneri Hölzel, 1996

Winterton, Shaun L. & Gupta, Ankita, 2020, Review of the green lacewing genus Apochrysa Schneider (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae), Zootaxa 4729 (3), pp. 329-346 : 343-344

Apochrysa wagneri Hölzel

( Fig. 11B )

Apochrysa wagneri Hölzel, 1996: 117 — Hölzel, 2001; Winterton & Brooks, 2002.

Common name. ‘Wagner’s delicate lacewing’.

Diagnosis. Forewing with few small irregular markings midway along inner and middle gradate series; hind wing with larger ovoid spot midway along inner gradate series and smaller spot on cross-vein further along gradate series, darker venation and faint suffusion in end-twigging marginally along posterodistal part of hind wing; forewing with three gradate series, hind wing with two gradate series; forewing RA area with RA-RP cross-veins simple, lacking interconnecting cross-veins; basal half of forewing with irregular cross-veins connecting RP branches; inner gradate series of hind wing sharply recurved anteriorly at midpoint in a distinct sigmoid shape; hind wing with distinct ovoid marking midway along inner gradate series; end-twigging present along most of posterior margin of both wings.

Comments. As mentioned previously, A. wagneri is in the group of Afrotropical species all characterised by a hind wing with the inner-most gradate series arranged in a sigmoid shape with a distinct ovoid marking mid way, as well as the posterodistal margin of the hind wing with suffuse infuscate shading. Apochrysa wagneri is very similar to A. leptalea , and is only differentiated by the presence of two gradates series in the hind wing, while A. leptalea has three. Apochrysa wagneri is known from Rwanda. The holotype specimen is housed in the National Collection of Insects, Pretoria.

Figures

FIGURE 11. Wings of Apochrysa spp.: A. Apochrysa voeltzkowi (Weele) (after Kimmins, 1952: fig. 3); B. Apochrysa wagneri Hölzel (drawn from Hölzel, 1996: fig. 1) (Note: figures not to scale and vestiture omitted).