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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies (Neuroptera) » Lacewings and Allies (Hemerobiiformia) » Green Lacewings (Chrysopidae) » Typical Green Lacewings (Chrysopinae) » Chrysopini » Stink Lacewings (Chrysopa) » Four-spotted Green Lacewing (Chrysopa quadripunctata)
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Green Lacewing - Chrysopa quadripunctata
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Luk

Green Lacewing - Chrysopa quadripunctata
Richmond Hill, York Region, Ontario, Canada
July 17, 2007
Keyed using The Green Laceings of Florida: I believe this is a Green Lacewing of the genus Chrysopodes, based on the following characteristics:

- antennae uniform and not longer than forewings; scape unmarked
- wings narrow
- hind wing with many inner gradate cross veins and pterostigma without dark brown spot
- fore wing with "first RS cross vein meeting vein MA before apex of cell im"
- pronotum and face marked, with red transverse lines on the face
- eyes quite large

If someone can confirm that for me, it would be good that a new page be created for it.

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Contributed by Stephen Luk on 26 July, 2007 - 8:49pm
Last updated 18 December, 2008 - 11:24am

The link in the remarks is no longer working. Here is a working link (PDF): http://www.freshfromflorida.com/content/download/10785/141001/ent400.pdf
… John Schneider, 11 October, 2015 - 8:23pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Chrysopa.
… Ken Schneider, 18 December, 2008 - 11:24am login or register to post comments

#131061 Identification – Chrysopa quadripunctata
Identification.
… John D. Oswald, 18 December, 2008 - 11:10am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Moved to new species page.
… Ken Schneider, 18 December, 2008 - 11:24am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Green Lacewings.
… Ken Schneider, 11 December, 2008 - 1:27pm login or register to post comments

Nice work, Stephen
It'd be good to get some of these to genus and species. You're certainly taking this in the right direction.
… Ron Hemberger, 26 July, 2007 - 9:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks you for the comment, Ron.
For me, it certainly isn't easy, since what resources I have come from the net (and the rest, from years of knowledge and mental pictures assimilated from borrowed texts). I do the best I can with what keys I can find, leaving the rest for the experts in knowing that I've done what I can on my part.
… Stephen Luk, 26 July, 2007 - 10:14pm login or register to post comments

 
I
second Ron.
Based on the key (4') you linked, do you agree this specimen is Nodita before I make a page for it?
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 27 July, 2007 - 8:59am login or register to post comments

 
Yes
though not an expert, I am quite confident that you've got a Nodita. The only other genus in Florida in which individuals have a dark brown spot in the hindwing pterostigma is Leucochrysa; the only Florida representative of that genus is differently patterned (info here).
You've nailed the key, and from what I can make out in your image, the wing im cell is triangular (4'), thus supporting the genus Nodita. So, I'd say you're cleared to create a page for your images.
… Stephen Luk, 27 July, 2007 - 10:27am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
for your help, Stephen.
Added image of forewing cell im on new genus page.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 27 July, 2007 - 11:29am login or register to post comments

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