The green lacewings of Pakistan (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae): a faunal review with new records of genera and species
Author
Hassan, Muhammad Asghar
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Author
Liu, Xingyue
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-09-01
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5180.1.1
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Subfamily
Chrysopinae Schneider, 1851
Chrysopinae
comprises six extant genera and 24 species in
Pakistan
:
Apertochrysa
(8 spp.),
Chrysopa
(6 spp.),
Chrysoperla
(3 spp.),
Italochrysa
(3 spp.),
Suarius
(3 spp.), and
Tumeochrysa
(
1 sp.
).
Key to genera of
Chrysopinae
from
Pakistan
1 Forewing with three regular series of gradate crossveins (
Fig. 1A
)............................
Tumeochrysa
Needham
– Wings with two regular series of gradate crossveins (
Fig. 1B
).................................................. 2
2 Intramedian cell (im) of forewing nearly trapeziform (
Figs 1C
,
4
)...............................
Italochrysa
Principi
– Intramedian cell (im) of forewing nearly oval-triangular (
Fig. 1D
)................................................3
3 Basal inner gradates meeting Psm in forewing (
Fig. 1E
)....................................................... 4
– Basal inner gradates not meeting Psm in forewing (
Fig. 1F
).................................................... 5
4 Head largely unmarked, except narrow dark brown spots on gena and clypeus (
Figs 2A, D
); basal crossvein between Rs and M present on distal margin of im cell (
Fig. 1E
) or beyond im cell............................. ..
Chrysoperla
Steinmann
– Head with dark brown spots on frons and vertex (
Figs 2B, E
); basal crossvein between Rs and M present on subdistal margin of im cell...............................................................................
Chrysopa
Leach
5 Scape yellow, with or without dark brown stripe; tibial spurs ratio on each leg (0-1-1) (
Figs 3H–J
); fifth and six cells beneath Rs in hindwing elongated (
Figs 3C–D
); tignum and gonapsis present in male genitalia (
Figs 2G–H
)................... 6
– Scape yellow, with dorsal and lateral longitudinal dark stripes (
Fig. 2C
); tibial spurs ratio on each leg (0>2>2) (
Figs 3E–G
); fifth and six cells beneath Rs in hindwing short (
Figs 3A–B
); tignum and gonapsis absent in male genitalia...
Suarius
Navás
6 Dorsal arm of apodeme on male tergum 9 + ectoproct extending to dorsal margin of callus cerci; gonapsis usually W, X, or Yshaped (
Yang
et al.
2005
: figs 179 D–E, 189F)..................................................
Mallada
Navás
– Dorsal arm of apodeme on male tergum 9 + ectoproct not extending to callus cerci (
Fig. 30G
); gonapsis with four distinctive shapes (
Breitkreuz
et al.
2021a
: figs 1A–D), but all
types
with a pair of lateral wings, connected to a single anteriorly-directed rod.................................................................................
Apertochrysa
Tjeder