Chrysopini Explained

Chrysopini is a tribe of green lacewings in the family Chrysopidae.^[1] There are about 32 genera and 926 described species in Chrysopini.^[2]

Genera

• Anomalochrysa McLachlan, 1883 — 19 species
• Apertochrysa Tjeder, 1966 — 183 species^{[3] [4]}
• Atlantochrysa Hölzel, 1970 — 1 species^[5]
• Austrochrysa Esben-Petersen, 1928 — 9 species
• Borniochrysa Brooks & Barnard, 1990 — 5 species
• Brinckochrysa Tjeder, 1966 — 23 species
• Ceraeochrysa Adams, 1982 — 62 species^[6]
• Ceratochrysa Tjeder, 1966 — 3 species
• Chrysemosa Brooks & Barnard, 1990 — 11 species
• Chrysocerca Weele, 1909 — 6 species
• Chrysopa Leach in Brewster, 1815 — over 60 sensu stricto,^[7] 199 species including incertae sedis^[2]
• Chrysoperla Steinmann, 1964 — 67 species
• Chrysopidia Navás, 1911 — 19 species
• Chrysopodes Navás, 1913 — 47 species^[8]
• Cunctochrysa Hölzel, 1970 — 10 species
• Eremochrysa Banks, 1903 — 18 species
• Furcochrysa Freitas & Penny - 1 species^[9]
• Glenochrysa Esben-Petersen, 1920 — 16 species
• Himalochrysa Hölzel, 1973 — 3 species
• Kostka Navás, 1913 — 1 species^[10]
• Kymachyrsa Tauber & Garland, 2014 — 2 species^[11]
• Mallada Navás, 1925 — 61 species
• Meleoma Fitch, 1855 — 28 species
• Nineta Navás, 1912 — 18 species
• Parachrysopiella Brooks & Barnard, 1990 — 3 species^[12]
• Peyerimhoffina Lacroix, 1920 — 1 species^{[10] [13]}
• Plesiochrysa Adams, 1982 — 29 species
• Rexa Navás, 1920 — 2 species^[14]
• Suarius Navás, 1914 — 29 species
• Titanochrysa Sosa and Freitas, 2012 — 6 species^[15]
• Tumeochrysa Needham, 1909 — 14 species
• Ungla Navás, 1914 — 26 species
• Yumachrysa Banks, 1950 — 4 species^{[10] [16]}

Notes and References

1. Species catalog of the Neuroptera, Megaloptera, and Raphidioptera of America north of Mexico. 1997. Penny . Norman D.. Adans . Phillip A.. Stange . Lionel A.. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series. 50. 39–114.
2. Web site: Neuropterida Species of the World . Oswald . John D. . 2021 . 7.1 . Lacewing Digital Library . Texas A&M . 10 April 2022.
3. Opinion 2254 (Case 3399) Dichochrysa Yang, 1991 (Insecta, Neuroptera): generic name not conserved . 2010 . The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature . 67 . 3 . 261–262 . 10.21805/bzn.v67i3.a4. 80717626 .
4. Breitkreuz . Laura . Duelli . Peter . Oswald . John D. . 2021 . Apertochrysa Tjeder, 1966, a new senior synonym of Pseudomallada Tsukaguchi, 1995 (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae: Chrysopinae: Chrysopini) . Zootaxa . 4966 . 2 . 215–225 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4966.2.8. 34186621 . 235505041 .
5. Duelli . Peter . Henry . Charles S. . Mochizuki . Atsushi . 2014 . The endemic Atlantochrysa atlantica (McLachlan) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) on Atlantic Islands: African or American origin? . Journal of Natural History . 48 . 41–42 . 2595–2608 . 10.1080/00222933.2014.917211. 84855522 .
6. Duque . Francisco . Tauber . Catherine A. . 2021 . The Neotropical green lacewing genus Ceraeochrysa Adams (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)—new synonymies and combinations, a new species, and an updated key to species . Zootaxa . 4970 . 1 . 152 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4970.1.1. 34186909 . 235686019 . free .
7. Badano . Davide . Makris . Christodoulos . 2020 . A new unexpected species of Chrysopa Leach from Cyprus with biogeographic remarks (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) . Annales de la Société entomologique de France . Nouvelle Série . 56 . 2 . 125–134 . 10.1080/00379271.2020.1756911. 219467970 .
8. Tauber . Catherine A. . Albuquerque . Gilberto S. . Tauber . Maurice J. . 2012 . Three New Brazilian Species of Chrysopodes (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) . Annals of the Entomological Society of America . 105 . 5 . 638–663 . 10.1603/AN12028. 85796434 .
9. de Freitas . Sergio . Penny . Norman D. . 2001 . Two New Genera of Neotropical Chrysopini (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) . Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society . 73 . 3 . 164–170 . 10 April 2022.
10. The green lacewings of the world: a generic review (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). 1990. Brooks . S. J.. Barnard . Peter C.. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 59. 2. 117–286. 0524-6431.
11. Tauber . Catherine A. . Garland . J. Allan . 2014 . Kymachrysa, a new genus of Nearctic green lacewings (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae, Chrysopini) . ZooKeys . 437 . 87–108 . 10.3897/zookeys.437.7984. 25197213 . 4155731 . free .
12. Penny . Norman D. . 1996 . A Revision of Parachrysopiella (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) . Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society . 69 . 3 . 222–233 . 10 April 2022.
13. Tauber . Catherine A. . Legrand . Jean . Tauber . Agatha J. . Tauber . Maurice J. . 2017 . An annotated catalog of the Lacroix types of Neruopterida, with emphasis on Chrysopidae . Entomologica Americana. 123 . 104 . 9–28 . 10.1664/1947-5144-123.1-4.9. 90794005 .
14. Canard . Michel . Monserrat . Victor José . 2019 . Nomenclature of the type species of the genus Rexa Navás, 1920 (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae) . Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France . 124 . 2 . 165–176 . 10.32475/bsef_2053. 196645298 .
15. Tauber . Catherine A. . Sosa . Francisco . Contreras-Ramos . Atilano . 2018 . Cryptochrysa Freitas & Penny, a generic homonym, replaced by Titanochrysa Sosa & Freitas (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Zootaxa . 4375 . 2 . 287–295 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4375.2.9. 29689776 . free .
16. Book: Oswald . John D. . Contreras-Ramos . Atilano . Penny . Norman D. . 2002 . Biodiversidad, Taxonomía y Biogeografía de Artrópodos de México: hacia una síntesis de su conocimiento . Bousquets . J.L. . Morrone . J.J. . Mexico City, Mexico . . 578 . Chapter 33: Neuroptera (Neuopterida) . https://lacewing.tamu.edu/neuropterida/neur_bibliography/edoc12/oswald2002ref10033-8304.pdf.