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Acoustic recognition of sibling species within the holarctic lacewing Chrysoperla carnea (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)
Author(s) -
HENRY CHARLES S.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
systematic entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0307-6970
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1983.tb00483.x
Subject(s) - neuroptera , chrysopidae , holarctic , biology , chrysoperla carnea , nearctic ecozone , zoology , sibling species , predation , ecology , taxonomy (biology) , genus
. Individuals of Chrysoperla curnea (Stephens) from central Europe exhibit courtship songs that are radically different from those of nearctic members of the same species. Additionally, the two geographically distinct populations will not hybridize under laboratory conditions. It is likely, therefore, that the two song morphs are distinct, sibling species; consequently Chrysoperla plorabunda (Fitch) is raised from synonymy, to include New World specimens formerly placed in C.camea. Within the nearctic region, other plorabunda ‐like individuals have been found to possess uniquely different calls, suggesting that the carnea‐plorabunda complex may in fact consist of numerous morphologically indistinguishable species.