Chrysopodes (Neosuarius)

Tauber, Catherine, 2010, Revision of Neosuarius, a subgenus of Chrysopodes (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae), ZooKeys 44 (44), pp. 1-104 : 16

Chrysopodes (Neosuarius) – collaris species-group

Four Chrysopodes (Neosuarius) species from Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean

region, and South America (south to northern Chile) form a natural group (the collaris

species-group); they share the following characteristics:

1 Body (dorsal): primary color green, usually with yellow mesal stripe

2 Head: yellowish with red or reddish markings

3 Male: eversible pouch at tip of S8+9 composed of heavy membrane bearing large field of robust gonocristae

4 Male: abdomen without transverse sclerotized, transverse bands on T9+ectoproct or sclerotized invagination along midline of S8+9

5 Female: spermatheca funnel-shaped, opening apically to bursa copulatrix via an elongate bursal duct

6 Female: spermathecal duct relatively well sclerotized, long, slender

7 Female: bursal duct tubular, extending from tip of bursa copulatrix, thickened, about twice length of bursa copulatrix [ C. (N.) figuralis ] or slender, elongate, long- er than the length of the abdomen [ C. (N.) collaris , C. (N.) krugii , C. (N.) oswaldi ]

8 Female: bursal glands not known to have accessory ducts