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- This page contains pictures and information about Green Lacewings that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Green Lacewings are small in size. They are bright green in
colour with clear wings, long thread-like antennae. They have relatively large,
golden, iridescent eyes. They are active at night and may come to house attracted
by
window light.
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- Those Green Lacewings are common in Brisbane gardens and bushland.
There are many different species look similar, i.e., most of them are pale
green with clear wings and about the same size. Adults have a slow, fluttering flight. They usually
feed on nectar. When rest, they like to hide under the bottom side of the leaf.
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- Larvae
Eggs
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- Their larvae are predators to small insects, such as aphids.
Some of them covered themselves with debris. Eggs laid on long slender
stalks.
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- Golden Eye Green Lacewing
 
- Chrysopa sp.,
subfamily Chrysopinae, adult body length 20mm, larvae length 5mm
- Green Lacewings are common in Brisbane. There are many different species
look similar, i.e., most of them are pale green with clear wings and about the
same size. Hard to identify to species level by looking at the photos.
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- Green Lacewing, Citrus Mealybug Predator
 - Oligochrysa lutea, subfamily Apochrysinae, body length 20mm
- This Green Lacewing has very long antennae, 1.5 times of the body length.
It has board clear wings with very slight brown spots on each wings. Larvae covered themselves with debris. Eggs laid on long slender
stalks. They are common in Brisbane Eucalyptus forests. Usually found
hiding under leaves during the day.
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- Reference and Link:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 539.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus &
Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p318.
- 3. Wildlife
of greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum, p98.
- 4. A revision of the Australian Chrysopidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) -
TR New 1980, Aust. J. Zool. Suppl. 77: 1-143
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