Chrysoperla Steinmann, 1964

Wang, Maozhi, Lai, Yan, Zhang, Dong & Liu, Xingyue, 2025, The green lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from the Tuha Basin, Xinjiang, northwestern China, with two new species and new record to China, Zootaxa 5722 (4), pp. 509-526 : 515

Genus Chrysoperla Steinmann, 1964

Chrysopa ( Chrysoperla) Steinmann, 1964: 260 . Type species: Chrysopa carnea Stephens, 1836: 103 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Medium-sized. Body mostly greenish. Head greenish or yellowish, unmarked or with red or brown stripes on gena, clypeus, frons and vertex. Pronotum with yellow median tripe, red lateral spots or stripes; dorsal setae long, pale or short, dark; meso- and metanotum with yellow median stripe or not. Wings unmarked, forewing veins mostly greenish, basal costal crossveins sinuous; stigma unmarked; 1r-m crossvein usually distad apex of intramedian cell ( im) cell. Male genitalia with tignum arcuate, entoprocessus absent or very short, mediuncus narrow, curved apically, gonarcus long, narrow and arcuate; gonosetae long; gonapsis absent (Brooks & Banard 1990; Breitkreuz 2018).

Distribution. Cosmopolitan.