family Chrysopidae

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Related to family Chrysopidae: lacewing fly, Hemerobiidae, brown lacewing

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family Chrysopidae - green lacewings

arthropod family - any of the arthropods

Neuroptera, order Neuroptera - an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies

aphid lion, aphis lion - carnivorous larva of lacewing flies

chrysopid, green lacewing, stink fly - pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvae

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Green lacewings, insects of the family Chrysopidae, are found across much of the globe.

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The family Chrysopidae consists of a large number of species that stand out among predators because of its prevalence in coffee crops, with Chrysoperla externa (Hagen, 1861) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) being the most common (Carvalho and Souza 2000).

Selectividad de insecticidas a pupas y adultos de Chrysoperla externa (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)

The family Chrysopidae contains over 1,200 species and subspecies divided into at least 80 genera and subgenera distributed around the world on all continents, except Antarctica (Brooks and Barnard, 1990; Brooks, 1997).

Haplotype characterization of the COI mitochondrial gene in Chrysoperla externa (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from different environments in Jaboticabal, state of Sao Paulo, southeastern Brazil/Caracterizacao haplotipica mitocondrial de Chrysoperla externa (Chrysopidae: Neuroptera) em distintos ambientes de Jaboticabal, Estado de Sao Paulo, Sudeste do Brasil