Chrysopa cymbele Banks, 1933

Hassan, Muhammad Asghar & Liu, Xingyue, 2022, The green lacewings of Pakistan (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae): a faunal review with new records of genera and species, Zootaxa 5180 (1), pp. 1-83 : 39

Chrysopa cymbele Banks, 1933

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Chrysopa cymbele Banks, 1933: 4 . Type locality: India (Tamil Nadu).

Chrysopa cymbele var. afasciata Nasir, 1947: 119 . Type locality: Pakistan (Punjab: Faisalabad ).

Chrysopa cymbele var. fasciata Nasir, 1947: 120 . Type locality: Pakistan (Punjab: Faisalabad ).

Diagnosis and notes

Based on comparison with the holotype of Chrysopa cymbele Banks, Nasir (1947) furthermore described two varieties based on the presence or absence of distinct bands along the epistomal suture and lateral margins of clypeus, viz., Chrysopa cymbele var. afasciata Nasir (without band: fig. 3) and Chrysopa cymbele var. fasciata Nasir (band only limited to the lateral margins of clypeus: fig. 4), now both are synonyms of Chrysopa cymbele Banks. We excluded this species in the present key, as it is hard to differentiate C. cymbele based on the original descriptions. Neither Banks (1933) nor Nasir (1947) provided any information about the utmost important characters of the male genitalia or any information about the pretarsal claws for the species delimitation. No additional specimens were added in this study.

Distribution

Pakistan. Punjab (Faisalabad), –– India (Tamil Nadu) ( Banks 1933; Nasir 1947; Hassan et al. 2019; Oswald 2022).

Figures

FIGURE 56. Distribution map of the Chrysopa species from Pakistan.