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Chrysopa
Chrysopa is a genus of green lacewings in the neuropteran family Chrysopidae.
Chrysoperla
Chrysoperla is a genus of common green lacewings in the neuropteran family Chrysopidae. Therein they belong to the Chrysopini, the largest tribe of subfamily Chrysopinae. Their larvae are predatory and feed on aphids, and members of this genus have been used in biological pest control.
Libelloides
Libelloides is a genus of owlflies belonging to the subfamily Ascalaphinae. The species of this genus are present in most of Europe. They inhabit dry meadows or dry coniferous forests.
Hemerobius
thumb|upright|Hemerobius humulinus Hemerobius is a genus of lacewings in the family Hemerobiidae. It is found throughout Europe and North America. Like most lacewings, both the larvae and adults are predatory, primarily eating acarines, scale insects, psyllids, aphids, thrips, and the eggs of lepidopterans and whiteflies.
Osmylus
Osmylus is a genus of large lacewings, typical of the family Osmylidae, first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1802. Species are recorded mostly from Europe and Asia.
Mantispa
Mantispa is the type genus of insects in the family Mantispidae and subfamily Mantispinae of the order Neuroptera. Species have a fairly worldwide distribution (but not Australia).
Ascalaphus
genus of owlfly
Nemoptera
thumb|Nemoptera sinuata
Micromus
Micromus is a genus of lacewings in the family Hemerobiidae (the brown lacewings). These small (4–10 mm long) insects are found worldwide. Like most lacewings, both the larvae and adults are predatory, primarily eating acarines, scale insects, psyllids, aphids, thrips, and the eggs of lepidopterans and whiteflies. The species Micromus tasmaniae has been mass-bred for biological pest control in Australia.
Semachrysa
Semachrysa is a genus of green lacewing found from Japan to Australia along the Western part of the Pacific Ocean. 20 Semachrysa species have been described between 1914 and 2012. 15 of them - one of which was new - have been included in a recent taxonomic study: Semachrysa claggi (Banks, 1937) Semachrysa contorta Brooks, 1983 Semachrysa cruciata (Esben-Petersen, 1928) Semachrysa dammermanni (Esben-Petersen, 1929) Semachrysa decorata (Esben-Petersen, 1913) Semachrysa hyndi Brooks, 1983 Semachrysa jade Winterton & Guek & Brooks, 2012 Semachrysa matsumurae (Okamoto, 1914) Semachrysa minuta Brook
Drepanepteryx
Drepanepteryx is a genus of insects belonging to the family Hemerobiidae.
Heteroconis
Heteroconis is a genus of lacewings belonging to the family Coniopterygidae.
Sisyra
Sisyra is a genus of lacewings in the family Sisyridae. There are at least 8 described species in Sisyra.
Tuberonotha
Tuberonotha is a genus of Asian mantisflies in the subfamily Mantispinae, erected by Eduard Handschin in 1961.
Coniopteryx
Coniopteryx is a genus of insects belonging to the family Coniopterygidae.
Varnia
Varnia is a small genus of moth lacewings, in the family Ithonidae. The genus is restricted to Australia, with only two species.
Dysochrysa
Dysochrysa, the red lacewings, belong to the green lacewing family Chrysopidae. They are medium-sized Afrotropical lacewings with large eyes, and have brightly coloured bodies like the related genus Oviedus.
Chrysopidia
Chrysopidia is a green lacewing genus in the subfamily Chrysopinae.
Zeugomantispa
Zeugomantispa is a genus of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae. There are at least three described species in Zeugomantispa found in the Americas.
Sympherobius
Sympherobius is a genus of brown lacewings in the family Hemerobiidae. There are at least 50 described species in Sympherobius.
Cunctochrysa
Cunctochrysa is a genus of insects belonging to the family Chrysopidae.
Drepanacra
Drepanacra is a genus of lacewings belonging to the family Hemerobiidae.
Nymphes
Nymphes is an Australian lacewing genus in the family Nymphidae.
Eremochrysa
Eremochrysa is a genus of shadow lacewings belonging to the family Chrysopidae. There are currently 18 described species in Eremochrysa.
Nineta
Nineta is a genus of lacewings belonging to the tribe Chrysopini, erected by Longinos Navás in 1912.
Neoconis
Neoconis is a genus of lacewing.
Cryptoscenea
Cryptoscenea is a genus of lacewings belonging to the family Coniopterygidae.
Isostenosmylus
Isostenosmylus is a genus of neotropical osmylid in the subfamily Stenosmylinae. It has been called "the most species-rich genus of lance lacewings in the Neotropical region."
Cordulecerus
Cordulecerus is a genus of owlflies, neuropteran insects in the subfamily Ascalaphinae. Species are found in Central and South America.
Rapisma
Rapisma is a genus of moth lacewings, Ithonidae. They were previously placed in family of their own, Rapismatidae. They are mostly brown or green and the body is broad and the head is short and retracted under the pronotum. Some species show sexual dimorphism in wing shape. Species identification is based on genitalia characters and requires the dissection of specimens. The genus has species that are distributed along the Himalayas from Nepal to Thailand, Malaysia and South East Asia. One species, R. tamilanum, has a slightly more disjunct distribution and occurs in the Western Ghats of southe
Semidalis
thumb | right | Semidalis aleyrodiformis Semidalis is a genus of insects belonging to the family Coniopterygidae.
Suarius
Suarius is a genus of Palaearctic and Oriental realm lacewings in the tribe Chrysopini, erected by Longinos Navás in 1914.
Conwentzia
Conwentzia is a genus of net-winged insects belonging to the family Coniopterygidae or dustywings. Conwentzia species are present in most of Europe.
Stiphroneura
genus of insects
Nemia
Nemia is a genus of insects belonging to the family Nemopteridae.
Spiloconis
Spiloconis is a genus of lacewing.
Helicoconis
Helicoconis is a genus of insects belonging to the family Coniopterygidae.
Parasemidalis
Parasemidalis is a genus of insects belonging to the family Coniopterygidae.
Dimarella
Dimarella is a genus in the antlion family. It contains sixteen species: