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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Chrysoperla rufilabris - Red-lipped Green Lacewing


Inheritance of seasonal cycles in Chrysoperla (Insecta: Neuroptera)
By Catherine A. Tauber & Maurice J. Tauber
Genetics Research, 49 (3): 215-223, 1987

A new look at adaptive body coloration and color change in “Common Green Lacewings” of the genus Chrysoperla
By Peter Duelli, James B. Johnson, Mario Waldburger, & Charles S. Henry
Annals of the Entomological Society of America 107(2): 382-388, 2014
Full title: A new look at adaptive body coloration and color change in “Common Green Lacewings” of the genus Chrysoperla (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae).

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Systematics of North American chrysopid larvae: Chrysopa carnea group (Neuroptera)
By Catherine A. Tauber
The Canadian Entomologist 106(11), 1974
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DOI:10.4039/Ent1061133-11

Note: The taxonomy is a bit out of date and differs to that used by BugGuide. The presented "carnea group" corresponds to the current treatment of the genus Chrysoperla (including both the carnea and pudica groups), and the presented "Chrysop carnea" refers to unconsolidated members of the Chrysoperla carnea group including C. plorabunda.

A taxonomic review of the common green lacewing genus Chrysoperla
By Brooks SJ
Bull. Br. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 63(2): 137-210 , 1994
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includes key to world species

Kymachrysa, a new genus of Nearctic green lacewings (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae, Chrysopini)
By Tauber C.A., Garland J.A.
ZooKeys 437: 87-108, 2014

Three new species of Chrysopidae
By Nathan Banks
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 4:173-175, 1897
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Includes the original descriptions of:
Eremochrysa sabulosa (as Chrysopa sabulosa)
Eremochrysa fraterna (as Chrysopa fraterna)
Leucochrysa americana

The taxonomy, life histories, and mating behavior of the green lacewings of Strawberry Canyon (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)
By Catherine A. Toschi
Hilgardia 36(11):391-433, 1965
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Notable for the descriptions of larvae, especially those of two Meleoma species and Nothochrysa californica.

The Biology of the Chrysopidae
By Roger Cletus Smith
Memoirs of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, 58: 1232-1372, 1922
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Includes notes on the larvae of a number of eastern species.