green lacewings
chrysopidae latin

The green lacewings vary in length from about one-half to three-quarters of an inch.

Chrysemosa is a genus of green lacewings in the family Chrysopidae.

Green lacewings also use substrate or body vibrations as a form of communication between themselves, especially during courtship.

Some of the costal cross veins are forked, unlike in green lacewings.

Green lacewings (Chrysopidae) have sensitive ears on their wings.

Release beneficial green lacewings to control lace bugs on rhododendrons and azaleas.

Green lacewings are insects in the large family Chrysopidae of the order Neuroptera.

Smaller members resemble typical green lacewings, and larger species resemble antlions.

The closest matches were to ones found in green lacewings, a type of fly, and in the African mosquitoes that carry malaria.

Despite their superficial similarity to chrysopids, the brown and green lacewings are not as closely related as was at one time believed.

Green lacewings are delicate insects with a wingspan of 6 to over 65 mm, though the largest forms are tropical.

Their performance is variable; thus, there is a lot of interest in further research to improve the use of green lacewings as biological pest control.

Adult green lacewings are a pale green colour with long, threadlike antennae and glossy, golden, compound eyes.

Loyola, genus of Chrysopidae (green lacewings)

Family Chrysopidae: green lacewings, stinkflies (formerly in Hemerobioidea)

They also often sell insecticidal soaps, pheromone lures or ready-to-hatch natural predators like green lacewings or ladybugs.

Adult osmylids, like green lacewings (colloquially known as "stinkflies"), have prothoracal glands which produce foul-smelling compounds used to deter would-be predators.

Compared to other Neuroptera, which have an extensive, sometimes extremely abundant, fossil record, green lacewings are not known from that many fossils, and these are not generally well-studied.

For long, green lacewings were considered close relatives of the pleasing lacewings (Dilaridae) and brown lacewings (Hemerobiidae) and placed in the superfamily Hemerobioidea.

While depending on species and environmental conditions, some green lacewings will eat only about 150 prey items in their entire life, in other cases 100 aphids will be eaten in a single week.

Other foliar-foraging predators that are present North American soybean fields that may play a role in suppression of soybean aphid populations include green lacewings (Chrysoperla spp.)

These insects differ from the somewhat similar Chrysopidae (green lacewings) not only by the usual colouring but by the wing venation: hemerobiids having numerous long veins lacking in chrysopids.

Rather, the green lacewings (Chrysopidae) appear to be the osmylids' closest living relatives; together with some prehistoric lineages the Chrysopidae form superfamily Chrysopoidea which is sister to the presently monotypic Osmyloidea.

The common name lacewings is often used for the most widely known net-winged insects - the green lacewings (Chrysopidae) - but actually most members of the Neuroptera are referred to as some sort of "lacewing".

Today, the Hemerobioidea are usually considered monotypic, containing only the brown lacewings; the green lacewings seem to be very closely related to the osmylids (Osmylidae), which have much more advanced larvae superficially resembling those of the spongillaflies (Sisyridae) with which the spongillaflies were thus formerly allied.

Chrysemosa is a genus of green lacewings in the family Chrysopidae.

Green lacewings are insects in the large family Chrysopidae of the order Neuroptera.

Some Chrysopidae are of presently unknown relationships.

Chrysoperla carnea, known as the common green lacewing, is an insect in the Chrysopidae family.

Ceraeochrysa is green lacewing genus in the family Chrysopidae, containing the following species:

The Red lacewings (Dysochrysa) belong to the green lacewing family Chrysopidae.

Loyola, genus of Chrysopidae (green lacewings)

Chrysoperla lucasina is a species of 'lacewings' belonging to the family Chrysopidae subfamily Chrysopinae.

Family Chrysopidae: green lacewings, stinkflies (formerly in Hemerobioidea)

Thus, in several countries, millions of such voracious Chrysopidae are reared for sale as biological control agents of insect and mite pests in agriculture and gardens.

A fossil species of green lacewing (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae) was recently named Pseudochrysopa harveyi to honour the founder of the park, Gordon Harvey.

The living genera of Chrysopidae are divided into one very large and two smaller subfamilies; a few genera are not robustly assigned to either of these yet:

These include members of the families Phytoseiidae, Coccinellidae, Syrphidae, Anthocoridae, Nabidae, and Miridae, Chrysopidae and Coniopterygidae.

These insects differ from the somewhat similar Chrysopidae (green lacewings) not only by the usual colouring but by the wing venation: hemerobiids having numerous long veins lacking in chrysopids.

Members of the tribe Groteini parasitize solitary bees and members of the tribe Brachycyrtini parasitize Chrysopidae and Araneae egg sacs.

The fossil insects are particularly diverse and well preserved, and include an extinct bulldog ant Macabeemyrma ovata and a recently described species of green lacewing (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae), Archaeochrysa profracta.

The common name lacewings is often used for the most widely known net-winged insects - the green lacewings (Chrysopidae) - but actually most members of the Neuroptera are referred to as some sort of "lacewing".

Winterton, S. L. (1995): A new genus and species of Apochrysinae (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from Australia, with a checklist of Australian Chrysopidae.

Rather, the green lacewings (Chrysopidae) appear to be the osmylids' closest living relatives; together with some prehistoric lineages the Chrysopidae form superfamily Chrysopoidea which is sister to the presently monotypic Osmyloidea.

Thus the superfamily Osmyloidea - also monotypic following the spongillaflies' removal from there - is the closest living relative of green lacewings; some Mesozoic taxa have been placed in families even closer to Chrysopidae (Ascalochrysidae and Mesochrysopidae) and united with these to superfamily Chrysopoidea.