FAMILY CHRYSOPIDAE Schneider, 1851

Chrysopina Schneider, 1851: 35. Type genus: Chrysopa Leach, 1815; original designation.

Chrysopidae Schneider, 1851; Newman 1853: cc [ending in -idae].

The family Chrysopidae includes fossils, and all Recent species (Nel et al. 2005) A global genus-level revision of the family was fulfilled by Brooks and Barnard (1990), who arranged 75 genera, 11 subgenera, and approximately 1200 described species or subspecies into three subfamilies, as follows: Apochrysinae, Chrysopinae, Nothochrysinae (Brooks and Barnard 1990; Brooks 1997). Two of these subfamilies are represented in Canada: i.e., Chrysopinae, and Nothochrysinae; in Alaska, only the Chrysopinae .