CHRYSOPINI Schneider, 1851

GARLAND, J. A. & KEVAN, D. K. MCE., 2007, Chrysopidae of Canada and Alaska (Insecta, Neuroptera): revised checklist, new and noteworthy records, and geo-referenced localities, Zootaxa 1486 (1), pp. 1-84 : 12-13

TRIBE CHRYSOPINI Schneider, 1851

Chrysopina Schneider, 1851: 35. Type genus: Chrysopa Leach, 1815 ; original designation.

Crisopinos Navás, 1910: 59.

Chrysopiscini Navás, 1910: 59. Type genus: Chrysopisca MacLachlan,1875 [to Chrysopa: Brooks and Barnard 1990 ]. Suarini Navás, 1914: 73. Type genus: Suarius Navás, 1914 .

Chrysopini Navás, 1914: 76 .

This tribe, treated here as monophyletic ( Winterton and de Freitas 2006), occurs worldwide ( Brooks and Barnard 1990; Brooks 1997). This is the largest tribe of Chrysopidae , with more than 30 genera ( Brooks 1994). The New World chrysopine fauna contains 12 genera ( Monserrat et al. 2001). In Canada, nine genera or subgenera occur, as follows: Ceraeochrysa , Chrysopa , Chrysoperla , Chrysopodes ( Neosuarius) , Dichochrysa , Eremochrysa ( Chrysopiella) , Eremochrysa ( Eremochrysa) , Meleoma , and Nineta ; in Alaska, only two genera: Chrysopa , and Chrysoperla .