{{Short description|Genus of insects}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Crisopid July 2013-9a.jpg | image_caption = ''Chrysopa sp.'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Chrysopa | authority = Leach in Brewster, 1815 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms = ''Odontochrysa'' <small>Yang & Yang, 1991</small> }}
'''''Chrysopa''''' is a genus of green lacewings in the neuropteran family Chrysopidae.
Members of this genus and the genus ''Chrysoperla'' are common in much of North America, Europe and Asia. They share similar characteristics and some species have been moved from one genus to the other and back again.<ref name = e+g2007>{{cite journal |author=Michael S. Engel & David A. Grimaldi |year=2007 |title=The neuropterid fauna of Dominican and Mexican amber (Neuropterida, Megaloptera, Neuroptera) |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=3587 |pages=1–58 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5880/1/N3587.pdf |doi=10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3587[1:TNFODA]2.0.CO;2|s2cid=49393365 }}</ref> Their larvae are predatory and feed on aphids and members of this genus have been used in biological pest control.
William Elford Leach first described this genus in 1815 in Brewster's ''Edinburgh Encyclopædia''.<ref>{{cite journal |author=H. Steinmann |year=1964 |title=The ''Chrysopa'' species (Neuroptera) of Hungary |journal=Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici |volume=56 |pages=257–266 |url=http://www.smmi.hu/termtud/neurohu/pdf/85.pdf }}</ref> Albert Koebele introduced species of Chrysopa to New Zealand in the 1890s, as a method to combat aphids, however no ''Chrysopa'' species were able to establish.<ref name="Wise">{{Cite Q|Q58677493}}</ref>
==Species== <!-- Neither ITIS nor Uniprot are reliable sources; they are not permitted as only sources on Wikipedia --> {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * ''Chrysopa abbreviata'' * ''Chrysopa chi'' <small>Fitch, 1855</small> <ref name=ITIS>{{ITIS |id=666146 |taxon=''Chrysopa'' Leach in Brewster, 1815 |accessdate=January 18, 2011}}</ref> * ''Chrysopa coloradensis'' <small>Banks, 1895 </small><ref name=ITIS/> * ''Chrysopa dorsalis'' <ref name=UP>{{cite web |url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/76806 |title=''Chrysopa'' |work=UniProt taxonomy |accessdate=January 19, 2011}}</ref> * ''Chrysopa excepta'' <small>Banks, 1911 </small><ref name=ITIS/> * ''Chrysopa formosa'' <ref name=UP/> * ''Chrysopa incompleta'' <small>Banks, 1911 </small><ref name=ITIS/> * ''Chrysopa intima'' <ref name=UP/> * ''Chrysopa lezeyi'' <ref name=UP/> * ''Chrysopa nigra'' <ref name=UP/> * ''Chrysopa nigricornis'' <small>Burmeister, 1839 </small><ref name=ITIS/> * ''Chrysopa oculata'' <small>Say, 1839 </small><ref name=ITIS/> * ''Chrysopa pallens'' <ref name=UP/> * ''Chrysopa perla'' <ref name=UP/> * ''Chrysopa pleuralis'' <small>Banks, 1911 </small><ref name=ITIS/> * ''Chrysopa quadripunctata'' <small>Burmeister, 1839 </small><ref name=ITIS/> * ''Chrysopa slossonae'' <small>Banks, 1924 </small><ref name=ITIS/> * ''Chrysopa viridana'' <ref name=UP/> }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Chrysopidae Category:Insects used as insect pest control agents Category:Neuroptera genera Category:Neuroptera of Europe Category:Neuroptera of Asia Category:Neuroptera of the Americas