Chrysopa sogdianica McLachlan

• Main Authors: Hassan, Muhammad Asghar, Liu, Xingyue
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Neuroptera; Chrysopidae; Chrysopa; Chrysopa sogdianica; Indiga
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7047019; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7047019

Chrysopa sogdianica McLachlan in Fedchenko, 1875 (Fig. 56) Chrysopa sogdianica McLachlan in Fedchenko, 1875: 20. Type locality: Unknown. Chrysopisca minuta McLachlan in Fedchenko, 1875: 23. Type locality: Unknown. Chrysopa nadali Navás, 1913c: 218. Type locality: Tunisia (Kébili). Chrysopa euprepia Navás, 1915a: 369. Type locality: Tozeur. Chrysopa indiga Navás, 1915a: 370. Type locality: Tozeur. Chrysopa harterti Navás, 1929a: 57. Type locality: Algeria. Chrysopa cufrina Navás, 1932d: 420. Type locality: Libya. Minva punctata Navás, 1919c: 288. Type locality: Algeria. Sencera fezzanina Navás, 1932a: 114. Type locality: Libia. Chrysopa asiatica Steinmann, 1971: 256. Type locality: Mongolia. Diagnosis and notes This species is closely related to C. astarte by the absence of basal dilation in pretarsal claws, but can be distinguished by the following characters: frons with dark brown spots; scapes with dark markings on lateral margins; and vertex with four dark spots. No additional specimens were added in this study. Although this species is unique among its congeners in Pakistan by lack of im cell in the forewing (Hölzel 1967: fig. 1). The male and female genital photographs of C. sogdianica were presented by Hölzel (1966) based on the syntypes deposited in the Natural History Museum, London. In the same paper, McLachlan described a monotypic genus, Chrysopisca to accommodate Chrysopisca minuta, distinguished by lack of im cell in forewing. Based on similar male genitalia, Brooks & Barnard (1990) later considered Chrysopisca minuta as a junior synonym of C. sogdianica. Distribution Pakistan. Balochistan (Quetta) –– Afghanistan, Russia (Turkestan), Northern Africa (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan), Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Iran) east to Mongolia (Hölzel 1967, 1980; Aspöck et al. 2001; Hassan et al. 2019; Oswald 2022). Genus Chrysoperla Steinmann, 1964 Diagnosis The genus Chrysoperla can be characterized by the following characters: medium-sized green lacewings (forewing length 9.0–14.0 mm); body generally ...