page_title: Chrysopidae
section_title: Selected genera
hierarchical_section_title: Chrysopidae / Systematics and taxonomy / Selected genera
caption_attribution_description: English: Nothancyla verreauxi Navás, to MV light, Aranda ACT, 5/6 December 2008
context_page_description: Green lacewings are insects in the large family Chrysopidae of the order Neuroptera. There are about 85 genera and 1,300–2,000 species in this widespread group. Members of the genera Chrysopa and Chrysoperla are very common in North America and Europe; they are very similar and many of their species have been moved from one genus to the other time and again, and in the nonscientific literature assignment to Chrysopa and Chrysoperla can rarely be relied upon. Since they are the most familiar neuropterans to many people, they are often simply called "lacewings". Since most of the diversity of Neuroptera are properly referred to as some sort of "lacewing", common lacewings is preferable.
context_section_description: The living genera of Chrysopidae are divided into one very large and two smaller subfamilies; a few genera are not robustly assigned to either of these yet:
  Subfamily Apochrysinae Handlirsch, 1908
  Apochrysa (including Anapochrysa, Lauraya, Nacaura, Oligochrysa, Synthochrysa)
  Domenechus
  Joguina – includes Lainius
  Loyola (including Claverina)
  Nobilinus
  Nothancyla
  Pimachrysa
  Subfamily Chrysopinae
  Almost 60 genera, see article.
  Subfamily Nothochrysinae Navas, 1910
  Asthenochrysa
  Dictyochrysa
  Hypochrysa
  Kimochrysa
  Nothochrysa McLachlan, 1868
  Pamochrysa
  Triplochrysa
  Incertae sedis
  Cladochrysa
  Maculatae
  Sinochrysa Yang, 1992 (Nothochrysinae?)
  Tibetochrysa Yang, 1988 (Chrysopinae?)
  Tolmeron
  Xanthochrysa Yang & Yang, 1991 (Chrysopinae?)
  Yunchrysopa Yang & Wang, 1994 (Chrysopinae?)
  Compared to other Neuroptera, which have an extensive, sometimes extremely abundant, fossil record, green lacewings are not known from that many fossils, and these are not generally well-studied. Their prehistoric relatives mentioned above, however, indicate that at least the basal radiation of the Chrysopoidea must have happened in the Jurassic already, if not earlier.
caption: Nothancyla verreauxi (Apochrysinae)
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