TRIBE CHRYSOPINI Schneider, 1851

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

Crisopinos Navás, 1910: 59.

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Chrysopiscini Navás, 1910: 59. Type genus: Chrysopisca MacLachlan,1875 [to Chrysopa: Brooks and Barnard 1990]. Suarini Navás, 1914: 73. Type genus: Suarius Navás, 1914 .

Chrysopini Navás, 1914: 76 .

This tribe, treated here as monophyletic (Winterton and de Freitas 2006), occurs worldwide (Brooks and Barnard 1990; Brooks 1997). This is the largest tribe of Chrysopidae, with more than 30 genera (Brooks 1994). The New World chrysopine fauna contains 12 genera (Monserrat et al. 2001). In Canada, nine genera or subgenera occur, as follows: Ceraeochrysa, Chrysopa, Chrysoperla, Chrysopodes (Neosuarius), Dichochrysa, Eremochrysa (Chrysopiella), Eremochrysa (Eremochrysa), Meleoma, and Nineta; in Alaska, only two genera: Chrysopa, and Chrysoperla .