Review of the green lacewing genus Chrysacanthia Lacroix with a new species from Nigeria (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae)

Shaun L Winterton; Stephen J Brooks

doi:10.3897/zookeys.517.9705

Review of the green lacewing genus Chrysacanthia Lacroix with a new species from Nigeria (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae)

Zookeys. 2015 Aug 12:(517):71-81. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.517.9705. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Shaun L Winterton¹, Stephen J Brooks²

Affiliations

¹ California State Collection of Arthropods, California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, California, USA.
² Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London, Great Britain.

Abstract

The genus Chrysacanthia Lacroix (Chrysopidae: Belonopterygini) is reviewed and a new species is described from Nigeria. With the addition of the new species described herein, the genus contains four Old World species known from Madagascar, Nigeria, India, Thailand and China.

Keywords: Afrotropical; Belonopterygini; Neuroptera.