Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Chrysopa carnea?, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Thanks Ken, I found one called Chrysopa prasina which looks like the green one too, unless I'm missing something. The eye colour on the bio-images pic is the same as mine was but the camera didn't show it that way, it was August last year. I can see the legs have a brownish colour at the foot end as I think mine has. Not sure about the body shape, male and female mostly differ.

http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/P2/P2028.php

The article below 'insects.tamu.edu' makes interesting reading on Lacewings, it states "there are five species in the Chrysoperla carnea-group in western Europe" so I imagine anything in that group would go into Chrysoperla carnea. If my green one happened to be Chrysopa prasina, would it go in that group?

Also if it was Chrysopa carnea would it fit in that group? I imagine it does. That might make it easy if it were one of those as we have an entry for Chrysoperla carnea.

http://insects.tamu.edu/research/neuropterida/nnews26.html


I also have one which could be Chrysopa perla, but there seems to be others similar.

http://www.hlasek.com/chrysopa_perla_360.html

http://www.hlasek.com/chrysopa_dorsalis_400.html

http://popgen.unimaas.nl/~jlindsey/commanster/Insects/Misc/N...

http://popgen.unimaas.nl/~jlindsey/commanster/Insects/Misc/C...

The body shape of Chrysopa perla seems to match, as well as the markings but others look to have the same markings.

http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/P3/P39283.php

Do you agree with Chrysopa perla, and if so the common name seems to be 'Green Lacewing'? as it fits in that Family, or is there another common name. I guess that would need a separate entry. It's all very confusing.

Sorry for all the questions, you will be getting fed up with me!