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Typical Green Lacewings
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Typical Green Lacewings

Chrysopinae

Chrysopinae is the nominate subfamily of green lacewings in the insect family Chrysopidae in the order Neuroptera. This subfamily is also the largest within the family and comprises about 60 genera.

Members of the genus Chrysoperla and the genus Chrysopa in this subfamily are common in Europe and North America. Chrysopinae larvae are predatory and feed on aphids; some of these species have been used in biological pest control, as has the Australian Mallada signatus.

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5 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first

Chrysopini

tribeChrysopini

Leucochrysini

tribeLeucochrysini

Ant-loving Lacewings

tribeBelonopterygini

Ankylopterygini

tribeAnkylopterygini

Nothancylini

tribeNothancylini

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 338941.