Species Chrysopa oculata

Classification · Identification · Range · See Also · Internet References

Portrait of a Green Lacewing - Chrysopa oculata

Green Lacewing ovipositing - Chrysopa oculata - female

Green Lacewing - Chrysopa oculata - female

Green Lacewing - predation - Chrysopa oculata - female

Green Lacewing - egg-laying - Chrysopa oculata - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Neuroptera (Antlions, Lacewings and Allies)

Family Chrysopidae (Green Lacewings)

Genus Chrysopa

Species oculata (Chrysopa oculata)

Identification

"Chrysopa oculata can be distinguished from other species by the following combination of characters: the frons has a darkly coloured ring around the lower or lateral margin of the base of the antenna; the antennal bases are not separated by an x-shaped mark as they are in C. chi; on the antennae, the pedicel is dark and the basal third of the flagellum is pale; there are small spots on the pronotum; the lateral groove of the vertex near the eye margin is completely pale." - University of Alberta

Range

Found throughout most of North America north of Mexico. (1)

See Also

Chrysopa chi

Internet References

(1) University of Alberta

Contributed by tom murray on 3 May, 2008 - 8:26pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Lynette
Last updated 28 December, 2008 - 7:45pm

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