Chrysoperla nipponensis ( Okamoto, 1914 )

Wang, Maozhi, Lai, Yan, Zhang, Dong & Liu, Xingyue, 2025, The green lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from the Tuha Basin, Xinjiang, northwestern China, with two new species and new record to China, Zootaxa 5722 (4), pp. 509-526 : 515-516

Chrysoperla nipponensis ( Okamoto, 1914) New record to the Tuha Basin

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Chrysopa nipponensis Okamoto, 1914: 65 . Type locality: Japan ( Kyushu : Kumamoto).

Chrysopa kurisakiana Okamoto, 1914: 71 . Type locality: Japan ( Kyushu : Kumamoto).

Chrysopa ilota Banks, 1915: 629 . Type locality: Philippines ( Luzon : Mt. Makiling).

Chrysopa kolthoffi Navás, 1927: 3 . Type locality: China ( Jiangsu).

Chrysopa sinica Tjeder, 1936: 29 . Type locality: China ( Gansu: Ardjuan ).

Diagnosis. Medium-sized. Body mostly greenish. Head yellowish, with brown markings on gena and lateral clypeus; maxillary palpi yellowish, brown on palpomeres 1–3 and basal palpomeres 4–5, labial palpi yellowish, brown on basal palpomeres 2–3; antennae with scape and pedicel yellowish, flagellum brown. Pronotum laterally marked with brown stripes, pro-, meso- and metanotum with median yellow stripe ( Yang & Yang 2005) Forewing with costal crossveins marked brown near subcostal veins; radial crossveins brown, greenish medially; other crossveins brown basally and partially green distally; gradate crossveins brown, A2 brown at base; hindwing with costal crossveins marked brown, radial crossveins marked brown but greenish medially. Male genitalia with tignum accurate; entoprocessus very short; mediuncus narrow, curved, accurate apically.

Material examined. 1♂, CHINA, Xinjiang, Hami, Yiwu, Naomaohu, Yiwu National Poplar Desert Park, 43.7023°N, 95.1416°E, 27.VII.2023 (L), Zhichao Zhou, Zijun Liu, Huayu Liu ( CAU). Distribution. China, Japan, North Korea, Mongolia, Philippines, Russia ( Oswald 2024). Remarks. This species has been recorded in Urumiqi, Xinjiang ( Yang & Yang 2005), and herein we report new distribution records from the Tuha Basin.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Green lacewings from Tuha Basin, habitus. A. Chrysopa formosa, female; B. Chrysopa phyllochroma, male; C. Chrysopa viridana, male; D. Chrysoperla nipponensis, male; E. Plesiochrysa bonbona sp. nov., male; F. Suarius fangwengi sp. nov., male; G. Suarius trilineatus, female. Scale bar = 1 mm.