Species Chrysoperla congrua (Walker, 1853)

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Species Chrysoperla congrua (Walker, 1853)

Chrysopa congrua Walker, F. 1853. List of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum Part 2 (Sialidae-Neuropterides). London : British Museum pp. 193-476. [238].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH adult sex indet., West Africa.
Chrysopa otalatis Banks, N. 1910. Some Neuroptera from Australia. Psyche (Cambridge) 17: 99-105 [102].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH adult sex indet., Brisbane, QLD.
Chrysopa lemoulti Lacroix, J.-L. 1923. Chrysopides nouveaux. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France (1923): 119-122 [121].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP adult sex unknown (depository uncertain), locality unknown.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Brooks, S.J. 1994. A taxonomic review of the common green lacewing genus Chrysoperla (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 63: 137-210 [164] (also for extralimital synonymy)

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Also from Pacific islands to Sri Lanka (absent from India), Arabian Peninsula and Afrotropics.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

Australia
- Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator.

General References

Brooks, S.J. & Barnard, P.C. 1990. The green lacewings of the world: a generic review (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 59: 117-286 [271] (Chrysopa otalatis Banks, 1910, nov. comb. as Chrysoperla otalatis)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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