Chrysopa Leach, 1815

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 : 38

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5180.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7047015

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scientific name

Chrysopa Leach, 1815
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Genus Chrysopa Leach, 1815 View in CoL View at ENA

Diagnosis

Chrysopa can be distinguished from the other Chrysopini genera in Pakistan by their distinctive head and thoracic markings, the shape of ovate im cell in forewing (occasionally absent), the pretarsal claws with or without basal dilation, and the male and female genital characters. The male adults are also distinguished by lack of gonapsis and tignum; pseudopenis hook-like, tapered apically; entoprocessus with dorsal horns; gonarcus arcuated in dorsal view, with a pair of lateral projections and a pair of median subtriangular projection; two pockets of long gonosetae (gst) in lateral margins of gonarcus; dorsal apodeme of ectoprocts curved upward; ventral apodeme of sternite 9 protruding distally; sternite 8 and 9 not fused; distal margin of sternite 9 with gonosetae. The female adults are distinguished by lack of pregenitale, and the presence of subgenitale, which is bilobed distally in ventral view.

Notes

The genus Chrysopa currently includes six species in Pakistan: C. astarte Hölzel , C. cymbele Banks , C. dubitans McLachlan , C. formosa Brauer , C. pallens (Rambur) , and C. sogdianica McLachlan , which are either listed in published catalogues ( Ari et al. 2007; Hassan et al. 2019) or the Lacewing Digital Library (Oswald 2022). In the present study, we re-described three species: C. dubitans , C. formosa , and C. pallens , based on new materials from the northern areas of Pakistan.

Key to Chrysopa species from Pakistan

1 Vertex with two or four dark spots ( Hölzel 1967: figs 25–26); pretarsal claws without basal dilation.................... 2

– Vertex with or without dark spots, sometimes with red markings ( Figs 28E View FIGURE 28 , 33E View FIGURE 33 , 34F View FIGURE 34 ); pretarsal claws with basal dilation.. 3

2 Interantennal spot absent; frons medially with a brownish spot below antennal toruli; vertex with four dark spots; scape anterolaterally with dark stripe ( Hölzel 1967: fig. 25); im cell absent in forewing ( Hölzel 1967: fig. 1).................................................................................................. C. sogdianica McLachlan View in CoL

– Interantennal spot present; frons with two transverse brownish spots below antennal toruli; vertex with two dark spots; scape wholly yellow, unmarked ( Hölzel 1967: fig. 26); im cell present in forewing.......................... C. astarte Hölzel View in CoL

3 Vertex with two dark spots or with red markings; dorsal horns of entoprocessus straight ( Figs 29E–F View FIGURE 29 , 31C–D View FIGURE 31 ); gonocristae consisting of small and large teeth.........................................................................4

– Vertex unmarked ( Fig. 36E View FIGURE 36 ); dorsal horns of entoprocessus arcuated ( Figs 37G–H View FIGURE 37 ); gonocristae without small and large teeth.................................................................................... C. pallens (Rambur) View in CoL

4 Sub costal veinlets pale green in forewing ( Fig. 27A–B View FIGURE 27 ); entoprocessus proximally inverted U-shaped with distinct lateral short horns ( Figs 29E–F View FIGURE 29 ); two pairs of large equal-sized gonocristae (gcr) present ( Fig. 29C View FIGURE 29 )............ C. dubitans McLachlan View in CoL

– Sub costal veinlets dark brown in forewing ( Figs 30A View FIGURE 30 , 33A View FIGURE 33 ); entoprocessus proximally inverted V-shaped with distinct lateral long-horns, pointed apically ( Figs 31C–D View FIGURE 31 ); two pairs of gonocristae (gcr), one at 1/4 of other ( Fig. 31I View FIGURE 31 ) .. C. formosa Brauer View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Neuroptera

Family

Chrysopidae

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