Chrysopa Leach, 1815

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 : 512

Genus Chrysopa Leach, 1815

Chrysopa Leach, 1815: 138 . Type species: Hemerobius perla Linnaeus, 1758 , by subsequent designation by ICZN, 1954: 3. Aelops Billberg, 1820: 95 . Type species: Hemerobius chrysops Linnaeus, 1758 , by subsequent designation by Tjeder, 1966:

351. Emerobius Costa, 1834: 72 . Type species: Hemerobius chrysops Linnaeus, 1758 , by monotypy. Melanops Doumerc, 1861: 192 . Type species: Chrysopa parvula Doumerc, 1861 , by monotypy. Chrysopisca McLachlan, 1875: 23 . Type species: Chrysopisca minuta McLachlan, 1875 , by monotypy. Cintameva Navás, 1914a: 214 . Type species: Cintameva venulosa Navás, 1914 , by original designation. Minva Navás, [1919a] 1920: 288. Type species: Minva punctata Navás, 1920 , by original designation and monotypy. Polyphlebia Navás, 1935: 88 . Type species: Polyphlebia punctata Navás, 1936 , by original designation and monotypy. Metachrysopa Steinmann, 1964: 264 . Type species: Chrysopa septempunctata Wesmael, 1841 , by original designation. Nigrochrysopa Steinmann, 1964: 264 . Type species: Chrysopa formosa Brauer, 1850 , by original designation. Parachrysopa Séméria, 1983: 310 . Type species: Hemerobius pallens Rambur, 1838 , by original designation and monotypy. Furcochrysa De Freitas & Penny, 2000: 167 . Type species: Furcochrysa allata De Freitas & Penny, 2000 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Medium to large sized. Body mostly green. Head usually extensively marked with black spots or stripes; palps tapered apically; mandibles broad, asymmetrical; antenna shorter than forewing. Pronotum unmarked or with black markings; meso- and metanotum marked with black markings or unmarked. Two series of gradate crossveins, basal inner gradate meeting PsM. Male genitalia with tignum absent or small; gonapsis absent; entoprocessus broad basally with dorsal horn; mediuncus arcuate, tapering apically, separated from gonarcus; gonarcus long, narrow, sometimes with a pair of short median horns; gonosetae very long, numerous (Brooks & Banard 1990; Breitkreuz 2018).

Distribution. Cosmopolitan.