Sencera Navas

Breitkreuz, Laura C. V., Winterton, Shaun L. & Engel, Michael S., 2015, Revision of the green lacewing subgenus Ankylopteryx (Sencera) (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae), ZooKeys 543, pp. 111-127 : 112-113

Taxon classification Animalia Neuroptera Chrysopidae

Subgenus Sencera Navas

Sencera Navás 1925: 26. Type species: Sencera scioneura Navás 1925, by original designation. Brooks 1983: 6 [keyed as genus]; Brooks and Barnard 1990: 157 [demoted to subgeneric rank, redescribed]; Tsukaguchi 1995: 10, 122 [synonymy with Ankylopteryx ]; New 2003: 92 [keyed as subgenus of Ankylopteryx ]; Yang et al. 2005: 51 [keyed as subgenus of Ankylopteryx ].

Diagnosis.

The subgenus Sencera differs from Ankylopteryx s.str. only in the absence of the forewing ‘im’ cell (Fig. 2). Brooks and Barnard (1990) mentioned further differences in the forewing length, ratio of forewing length and width, and ratio of head and compound eye widths but these are all overlapping with those values for species of Ankylopteryx s.str. The same is true for the slight color differences noted between the two.