Chrysopa

{{Short description|Genus of insects}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Crisopid July 2013-9a.jpg

| image_caption = Chrysopa sp.

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| taxon = Chrysopa

| authority = Leach in Brewster, 1815

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

| synonyms = Odontochrysa Yang & Yang, 1991

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Chrysopa is a genus of green lacewings in the neuropteran family Chrysopidae.

Members of this genus and the genus Chrysoperla are common in much of North America, Europe and Asia. They share similar characteristics and some species have been moved from one genus to the other and back again.{{cite journal |author=Michael S. Engel & David A. Grimaldi |year=2007 |title=The neuropterid fauna of Dominican and Mexican amber (Neuropterida, Megaloptera, Neuroptera) |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=3587 |pages=1–58 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5880/1/N3587.pdf |doi=10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3587[1:TNFODA]2.0.CO;2|s2cid=49393365 }} Their larvae are predatory and feed on aphids and members of this genus have been used in biological pest control.

William Elford Leach first described this genus in 1815 in Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopædia.{{cite journal |author=H. Steinmann |year=1964 |title=The Chrysopa species (Neuroptera) of Hungary |journal=Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici |volume=56 |pages=257–266 |url=http://www.smmi.hu/termtud/neurohu/pdf/85.pdf }} Albert Koebele introduced species of Chrysopa to New Zealand in the 1890s, as a method to combat aphids, however no Chrysopa species were able to establish.{{Cite Q|Q58677493}}