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The genus Vieira Navás (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae): a new species, a key to the species, and new geographic records.

Vieira Navás is a small genus of Neotropical green lacewings in the tribe Belonopterygini. Here, a fifth species, Vieira flinti sp. nov., is described from Venezuela and Brazil. This species shares…
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Revision of the Neotropical green lacewing genus Ungla (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae)

Ungla Navás, 1914, a poorly known Neotropical genus is reviewed, and three generalizations appear: the genital morphology of both males and females of Ungla species is very conserved, and all species express a common structural pattern.
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Two common and problematic leucochrysine species – Leucochrysa (Leucochrysa) varia (Schneider) and L. (L.) pretiosa (Banks) (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae): redescriptions and synonymies

It is shown that these species occur within a large complex of cryptic species and that they have accumulated a number of taxonomic problems, so two problematic and common Leucochrysa species are treated.
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A new genus of Neotropical Chrysopini (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)

The external morphology, and male and female genitalia of all these species are described.
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Adults and larvae of two Leucochrysa (Leucochrysa) species (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae): descriptions, biological notes, and relationships.

The two sets of species are considered to be distinct; their genitalia differ significantly from those of the described L. (L.) "varia-like" species; these include similar adult color polymorphisms and aspects of their larval morphology.
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New Neotropical species of Ceraeochrysa Adams (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)

Three species of Ceraeochrysa Adams are described as new to science, Ceraechrysa melaenopareia sp.
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First records of Ungla Navás (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from Venezuela, with descriptions of seven new species.

  • F. Sosa
  • Biology
    Zootaxa
  • 15 September 2015
Ungla Navás is a small and relatively unstudied genus of Neotropical Chrysopini from Central and South America that is reported from Venezuela for the first time, and seven new species are described.
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Cryptochrysa Freitas Penny, a generic homonym, replaced by Titanochrysa Sosa Freitas (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae).

The green lacewing genus name Cryptochrysa Freitas Penny 2001 is identified as a junior homonym of Cryptochysa Hampson 1926 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and TitanochrySA becomes the substitute name for the preoccupied generic name.
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Record of noctuids (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) associated with strawberry crop in western Venezuela.

First Host Record for Acanthaegilips (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Anacharitinae) and Description of a New Species From Venezuela

It is reported here the first known host of Acanthaegilips as Notiobiella cixiiformis (Gerstaecker, 1888) (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae).
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