Borniochrysa Brooks & Barnard, 1990

Wang, Maozhi, Lai, Yan & Liu, Xingyue, 2022, New record of Borniochrysa Brooks & Barnard, 1990 (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from China, with description of two new species, Zootaxa 5222 (5), pp. 478-488 : 479-480

Genus Borniochrysa Brooks & Barnard, 1990

Borniochrysa Brooks & Barnard, 1990: 192 .

Type species: Bornia winkleri Navás, 1928: 123 , by monotypy.

Bornia Navás, 1928: 123 (homonym of Bornia Philippi, 1836: 13 ); Banks, 1931: 381 (as synonym of Chrysopa Leach, 1815 ); Kuwayama, 1962: 372 (as synonym of Anomalochrysa McLachlan, 1883 ).

Diagnosis. (Adapted from Brooks & Barnard 1990; Breitkreuz 2018). Adult medium-sized (forewing 10–15 mm); body color generally pale green; antenna slightly shorter than forewing, each flagellomere with four rings of setae; scape yellow or with brownish stripe. Pronotum unmarked or with median yellow longitudinal stripe; meso- and metanotum unmarked or with brown or black stripe along sutures between prescutum, scutum, and scutellum. Legs unmarked or with black stripe on tibia; setae short, black; claws brown. Forewing unmarked or with brown suffusions on crossveins; pterostigma unmarked or with brown spots; Sc and R widely separated; im broad, ovate; two or three series of gradates present. Hindwing with two series of gradates. Male genitalia: sternites 8+9 fused, elongate; ectoprocts distally curved dorsad, bearing a few stout setae at tip; tignum, gonapsis and parameres absent; gonarcus narrow, long, with dorsolateral horns; entoprocessus forked; pseudopenis absent; gonosetae long or short. Female genitalia: Praegenitale absent; subgenitale broad; spermatheca broad, duct long, sinuous.

Distribution. Afrotropical region (widespread); Australian region ( Solomon Islands); Oriental region ( China (new record), Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines).