Apertochrysa venosa ( Rambur, 1838 )

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 : 23

Apertochrysa venosa ( Rambur, 1838)

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Hemerobius venosa Rambur, [1838] 1837 –1840: 9. Type locality: Spain (Andalucía: Granada ).

Chrysopa tosta Navás, 1934b: 108 . Type locality: Tunisia.

Chrysopa (Chrysoperla) reticulata Steinmann, 1965: 179 . Type locality: Mongolia.

Diagnosis and notes

Apertochrysa venosa has been reported from various localities in northern Pakistan ( Hölzel 1967, 2002; Ari et al. 2007), whereas the remaining congeners are only known from their type localities. It is distinctive among its congeners in Pakistan by the following characters: genae with lateral dark spots; clypeus laterally with dark brown stripe; frons with a transverse dark brown stripe below antennal toruli; scape marked dorsally; vertex with six dark brown spots, two crescentic above antennae, two parallel at medially, and two rounded at posterolateral margins ( Dobosz et al. 2016: figs 2–3). No additional specimens were added in this study.

Distribution

Pakistan. Gilgit-Baltistan (Gilgit, Nagar, Hunza), Punjab (Attock, Pindigheb), –– Russia, Southern Europe, Northern Africa, Middle East to Mongolia ( Hölzel 1967, 2002; Ari et al. 2007; Dobosz et al. 2016; Hassan et al. 2019; Oswald 2022).

Figures

FIGURE 55. Distribution map of the Apertochrysa species from Pakistan.