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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 23, 2007

I think this is Chrysopa carnea but there looks to be many of them so similar.

The body and wings on mine are green, the pics I've seen have wings which are slightly bluish.

http://www.hlasek.com/chrysopa_carnea_359.html

I read on one site the only way you can tell them apart is by their mating song!

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 23, 2007

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Jul 23, 2007

It looks pretty right as far as I can tell,

Ken

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 23, 2007

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/Neuroptera/Chrysopa.perla.html

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

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!

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 23, 2007

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 23, 2007

This one I got later on the same day so I imagine it will be the male of the blue one.

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Jul 23, 2007

I would stick to Chrysopa carnea for the first one and I agree that your other images look very like Chrysopa perla, although I would not like to commit myself on the last one (your possible male).
I think Green Lacewing is as good a common name as you can get for both species. I doubt if many species have specific commn names,

Ken

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 23, 2007

Thanks Ken, that was my gut feeling. I have added both to BF,

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