Chrysoperla nigrocapitata Henry, Brooks, Johnson, Haruyama, Duelli et Mochizuki, 2015

Makarkin, V. N., Markova, T. O. & Maslov, M. V., 2021, First record of the green lacewing Chrysoperla nigrocapitata (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from Russia, Far Eastern Entomologist 428, pp. 8-11 : 9

Chrysoperla nigrocapitata Henry, Brooks, Johnson, Haruyama, Duelli et Mochizuki, 2015

Figs 1–4

MATERIAL. Russia: Primorskii Krai , Kaimanovka village (43°37'49" N, 132°13'49" E) ,

10 full-grown larvae found in a household plot: (1) two on a raspberry bush ( Rubus idaeus

L.) beneath the netting covering it with larvae of Molipteryx fuliginosa , 11.VII 2016 ( Figs 1–

3); (2) eight on raspberry bushes, including one larva on a berry ( Fig. 4 ), 19–26.VII 2019,

19–26.VII 2020 ( T. Markova, M. Maslov) .

DISTRIBUTION. Russia (Primorskii Krai, new record), Japan (Honshu), South Korea.

REMARKS. Adults of this species are not distinguished from those of Chrysoperla nipponensis (Henry et al., 2015) . Their larvae however differ markedly: the dorsal part of the head of Ch. nigrocapitata is often completely dark-brown (as in Fig. 2 ), whereas that of Ch.

nipponensis is usually mostly pale, bearing a pair of relatively narrow, longitudinal brown stripes tapering anteriad (Henry et al., 2015, figs 3e–g). The head of darker larvae of Ch.

nipponensis is never dorsally completely dark brown, it remains pale at least anteriorly

(Henry et al., 2015, fig. 3h). The larval body color pattern of these species also differs: the meso- and metathorax of Ch. nigrocapitata are expansively brown, while those of Ch. nipponensis have smaller spots (see Tsukaguchi, 1995, figs. 62a, b; Henry et al., 2015, fig. 1a, b).

The larval color pattern shown in Fig. 2 is typical for Ch. nigrocapitata .

Figures

Figs 1–4. Chrysoperla nigrocapitata from Kaimanovka, Primorskii Krai: 1 – netting