Synonyms

None

Diagnosis

     "This is the only species of the genus in which the outer gradate cross-veins of the forewing are green and not brown.  In the male the apex of the ectoprocts is not as deeply bifid, viewed dorsally, as in the other species."  Barnard and Brooks (1984).

Type Depository

MNHN, Paris.

Type Locality

MADAGASCAR: [Toliara Province], Bekily, January 1933, 1 male.

Geographical Distribution

This species is endemic to Madagascar.  The only specific locality record that I am aware of is the holotype.

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Temporal Distribution

January.

Elevation

Unknown.

Remarks

There are good illustrations of the male genitalia in Barnard and Brooks (1984).

References

Barnard, P. C. and Brooks, S. J. 1984. The African lacewing genus Ceratochrysa (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae): a predator on the cassava mealybug, Phenacoccus manihoti (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae). Systematic Entomology 9:359-371.

Hölzel, H. and Ohm, P. 1992. Zoogeographical features of Madagascan Chrysopidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). Pp. 167-181 in Canard, M.; Aspöck, H.; Mansell, M. W. (eds.). Current Research in Neuropterology. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Neuropterology (24-27 June 1991, Bagnčres-de-Luchon, Haute-Garonne, France). Privately printed, Toulouse, France. 414 pp. 8 figures. 1 table

Navás, L. 1933 [1934.06.04]. Comunicaciones entomolÓgicas. 17. Insectos de Madagascar. Primera [I] serie. Revista de la [Real] Academia de Ciencias Exactas Fisico-Quimicas y Naturales de Zaragoza (1)17:49-76. 17 figures.