Italochrysa everetti
Creators: name: Hassan, Muhammad Asghar
name: Liu, Xingyue
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Chrysopidae
Italochrysa
Italochrysa everetti

description: Italochrysa everetti (van der Weele, 1909)
(Figs 4, 8–10, 53)
Nothochrysa everetti van der Weele, 1909: 78. Type locality: Indonesia.
Diagnosis and notes
Nothochrysa evanescens was originally described from Malaysia by McLachlan (1869). Later, van der Weele (1909) described three subspecies: Nothochrysa evanescens javanica, N. evanescens everetti, and N. evanescens ludekingi. Among them, N. evanescens javanica and N. evanescens evanescens were transferred to Evanochrysa by Brooks & Barnard (1990), while N. evanescens everetti, and N. evanescens ludekingi were considered as independent species in Italochrysa. The photograph provided by van der Weele (1909: fig. 32) for Italochrysa everetti is almost identical to our examined specimen from Pakistan, particularly the third intracubital cell (icu3) distally with distinct brownish spot (Fig. 4). Therefore, we followed van der Weele (1909) and identified I. everetti based on a newly collected male specimen.
Redescription
Measurements (♂ n=1). Forewing: length 24.0 mm, width 6.5 mm; hindwing: length 21.0 mm, width 6.0 mm; body length 14.0 mm.
Head (Figs 9A–B). Vertex moderately raised, unmarked, brownish yellow, medially with an inverted V-shaped suture, rounded in frontal view. Postorbital sclerite brownish yellow, unmarked. Frons pale yellow, brownish yellow around base of antennal toruli; epistomal suture with an inverted V-shaped; covered with short yellow setae. Clypeus yellow, covered with short yellow setae. Labrum brownish yellow, with short yellow setae. Genae yellow. Maxillary and labial palpi brownish yellow, with short yellow setae. Antennae shorter than forewing length; scape and pedicel orange, covered with short yellow setae; flagellum dark brown, each flagellomere with five rings, with short black setae.
Thorax (Fig. 9C). Pronotum wider than long (length 1.10 mm, width 2.00 mm), brownish yellow, with a broad median yellow stripe, covered with short black and yellow setae. Meso- and metanotum brownish yellow at lateral margins, except with a broad median yellow stripe, covered with dark brown setae. Pleurite brownish with yellow markings, covered with short pale setae (Fig. 9E).
Legs (Fig. 9E). Pale yellow, femora light brownish, covered with short dark brown setae. Pretarsal claws with distinct basal dilation, arcuated in lateral view (Fig. 9F).
Wings (Fig. 4). Veins pale yellow, covered with short yellow setae. Subostal veinlets brownish yellow. Forewing: Costal area relatively narrow at both ends, slightly wider at the longest subcostal veinlets (4–14). Subcostal area with seven crossveins below pterostigma. Pterostigma brownish. 20 radial cells (r cell). Six Banksian cells (b cell); eight lower Banksian cells (b’ cell). Basal crossvein between Rs and M (r-m 1) oblique, meets after middle of im cell. Median arculus (m-cu2), Pseudomedia (Psm), and pseudocubitus (Psc) pale yellow. Two series of gradates; both meeting psm; 11 inner gradates (ig) and outer gradates (og). Two intramedian cells; first intramedian cell (im1) quadrate. Second median cell (m2) slightly longer than third (m3) median cells. Three intracubital cells (two closed); first (icu1) longer than second (icu2); third intracubital cell (icu3) distally with distinct brownish spot. Hindwing: Costal area narrow. Veins pale yellow. Radial branches brownish yellow. Subcostal area with eight crossveins below pterostigma. Pterostigma brownish. 17 radial cells (r cell). Six Banksian cells (b cell); eight lower Banksian cells (b’ cell). Pseudomedia (Psm) and pseudocubitus (Psc) pale yellow. Two series of gradates; nine inner gradates and 10 outer gradates.
Abdomen (Figs 9C–E). Tergum brownish, covered with short pale yellow setae. Sternum dark brown, covered with short pale yellow setae.
Male genitalia (Figs 10A–G). Tergum 8 (T8) quadrate in lateral view. T9+ectoproct reniform in lateral view, covered with brownish setae. Dorsal arm of apodeme (da) on T9+ectoproct transverse, forked at apex; submarginal apodeme (sa) of S8+9 straight. Callus cerci (cc) oblong, with 55 trichobothria. S8+9 fused, without suture, quadrate in lateral view; S8+9 shorter than T9+ectoproct in lateral view. Gonarcus (gon) short and broad, with distinct broader V-shaped plates. A pair of parameres (pa), narrow and straight, slightly curved at proximal margin, pointed distally. Arcessus (arc) short, broader, digitiform distally. Hypandrium internum (hi) V-shaped. Comes (c) slender in dorsal view.
description: Published as part of Hassan, Muhammad Asghar & Liu, Xingyue, 2022, The green lacewings of Pakistan (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae): a faunal review with new records of genera and species, pp. 1-83 in Zootaxa 5180 (1) on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5180.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7040828