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Lichen-carrying Green Lacewing (Leucochrysa pavida)
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Ken Wolgemuth
Debris-carrying larva -
Leucochrysa pavida
Thompsontown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, USA
September 26, 2019
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Contributed by
Ken Wolgemuth
on 26 September, 2019 - 3:56pm
Last updated 10 September, 2020 - 12:33am
Moved
Moved from
Unidentified Debris-Carrying Larvae
.
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Jonathan Hoskins
, 10 September, 2020 - 12:33am
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Thanks!
What are the key characteristics for this one? Lichen? Head pattern? Range? Or maybe a combination of these?
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Ken Wolgemuth
, 10 September, 2020 - 11:46am
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The larvae of this species ar
The larvae of this species are fairly well-studied, especially compared to other debris-carrying species. They particularly use green lichens so are fairly distinctive (in fact, they're even particular about which species and parts of lichens they use for their debris packet). That being said, the facial markings are indeed useful in this genus as well. Tauber (2004) gives a good comparison within the genus, especially Figs. 11 (p. 1142) and 14 (p. 1145). A few considerations regarding
Ceraeochrysa lineaticornis
carrying lichens are included on p. 1157, which go back in part to those facial markings. Those of
C. lineaticornis
are included by Tauber et al. (2014) in Fig. 3B (p. 299), along with what seems to be more typical debris of trichomes.
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Wilson (1995): Lichen use by larval
Leucochrysa pavida
(Neuroptera:Chrysopidae), Master's thesis
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Tauber (2004): A Systematic Review of the Genus
Leucochrysa
(Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) in the United States
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Tauber et al. (2014): Debris-Carrying in Larval Chrysopidae: Unraveling its Evolutionary History
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Jonathan Hoskins
, 11 September, 2020 - 1:44am
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Good info
Thanks!
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Ken Wolgemuth
, 11 September, 2020 - 7:56am
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