''Apertochrysa'' is a genus of

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. There are 183 described species in the genus.

Taxonomy

This genus was originally described in 1990 by Xing-ke Yang and Chi-kun Yang under the name of ''Navasius''. The name was a

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of '' Navasius'' Esben-Petersen, 1936, a species of

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, so a replacement name of ''Dichochrysa'' was proposed by Yang in 1991. However, a ruling by the

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instead maintained priority of the name ''Pseudomallada'' Tsukaguchi, 1995, thereby renaming the species previously described under the name of ''Dichochrysa''. Further taxonomic work in 2021 by Breitkreuz, Duelli, and Oswald synonymized those genera under ''Apertochrysa'' Tjeder, 1966.

Distribution

''Apertochrysa'' is a subcosmopolitan genus. The majority of species are known from the Palearctic region, particularly from the continents of

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and

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. left, ''Apertochrysa'' sp. larva

Species

The following 183 species are currently classified under ''Apertochrysa'': * '' A. abdominalis'' (Brauer, 1856) * '' A. aegyptiaca'' (Navás, 1915) * '' A. afghanica'' (Hölzel, 1973) * '' A. alarconi'' (Navás, 1915) * '' A. albofrontata'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1999) * '' A. alcestes'' (Banks, 1911) * '' A. alliumolens'' (Hölzel et al., 1997) * '' A. allochroma'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1999) * '' A. alviolata'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1990) * '' A. amseli'' (Hölzel, 1980) * '' A. ancistroidea'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1990) * '' A. angustivittata'' (Dong et al., 2004) * '' A. anomala'' (Tillyard, 1917) * '' A. arabica'' (Hölzel, 1995) * '' A. arcuata'' (Dong et al., 2004) * '' A. ariadne'' (Hölzel, 1978) * '' A. aromatica'' (C.-k. Yang & X.-k. Yang, 1989) * '' A. aspersa'' (Wesmael, 1841) * '' A. astur'' (Banks, 1937) * '' A. atrosparsa'' (Tjeder, 1966) * '' A. australis'' (New, 1980) * '' A. barkamana'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1992) * '' A. baronissa'' (Navás, 1921) * '' A. basuto'' (Tjeder, 1966) * '' A. benedictae'' (Séméria, 1976) * '' A. bibens'' (Hölzel et al., 1997) * '' A. birungana'' (Navás, 1924) * '' A. brachychela'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1999) * '' A. budongensis'' (Hölzel, 2001) * '' A. caffer'' (Tjeder, 1966) * '' A. carinata'' (Dong et al., 2004) * '' A. chailensis'' (Ghosh, 1977) * '' A. chaoi'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1999) * '' A. chlorella'' (Navás, 1914) * '' A. chloris'' (Schneider, 1851) * '' A. choui'' (C.-k. Yang & X.-k. Yang, 1989) * '' A. clathrata'' (Schneider, 1845) * '' A. cognatella'' (Okamoto, 1914) * '' A. collartina'' (Navás, 1932) * '' A. congolana'' (Navás, 1911) * '' A. cordata'' (X.-x. Wang & C.-k. Yang, 1992) * '' A. cyprina'' (Navás, 1932) * '' A. decaryna'' (Navás, 1924) * '' A. decolor'' (Navás, 1914) * '' A. decolor'' (Navás, 1936) (unreplaced junior homonym) * '' A. deqenana'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1992) * '' A. derbendica'' (Hölzel, 1967) * '' A. deserta'' (Navás, 1912) * '' A. diaphana'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1999) * '' A. dubia'' (Hölzel 1973) * '' A. duplicata'' (Navás, 1934) * '' A. edwardsi'' (Banks, 1940) * '' A. epunctata'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1990) * '' A. eremita'' (Kimmins, 1955) * '' A. estriata'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1999) * '' A. eumorpha'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1999) * '' A. eurydera'' (Navás, 1910) * '' A. fanjingana'' (C.-k. Yang & X.-x. Wang, 1988) * '' A. flammefrontata'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1999) * '' A. flavifrons'' (Brauer, 1851) * '' A. flavinotala'' (Dong et al., 2004) * '' A. flexuosa'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1990) * '' A. forcipata'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1993) * '' A. formosana'' (Matsumura, 1910) * '' A. fortunata'' (McLachlan, 1882) * '' A. fuscineura'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1992) * '' A. genei'' (Rambur, 1842) * '' A. gradata'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1993) * '' A. granadensis'' (Pictet, 1865) * '' A. gravesi'' (Navás, 1926) * '' A. gunvorae'' (Tjeder, 1966) * '' A. hadimensis'' (Canbulat & Kiyak, 2005) * '' A. hainana'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1990) * '' A. hamata'' (Tjeder, 1966) * '' A. handschini'' (Navás, 1929) * '' A. healdi'' (Navás, 1926) * '' A. hespera'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1990) * '' A. heudei'' (Navás, 1934) * '' A. hospitalis'' (Hölzel & Ohm, 1995) * '' A. huashanensis'' (C.-k. Yang & X.-k. Yang, 1989) * '' A. hubeiana'' (C.-k. Yang & X.-x. Wang, 1990) * '' A. iberica'' (Navás, 1903) * '' A. ifranina'' (Navás, 1936) * '' A. ignea'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1990) * '' A. illota'' (Navás, 1908) * '' A. incongrua'' (Fraser, 1951) * '' A. incrassata'' (Tjeder, 1966) * '' A. ingae'' (Tjeder, 1966) * '' A. iniqua'' (Navás, 1931) * '' A. inopinata'' (Hölzel & Ohm, 1995) * '' A. inornata'' (Navás, 1901) * '' A. irrorella'' (Navás, 1936) * '' A. jiuzhaigouana'' (X.-k. Yang & X.-x. Wang in X.-k. Yang et al., 2005) * '' A. joannisi'' (Navás, 1910) * '' A. karooensis'' (Hölzel, 1993) * '' A. kiangsuensis'' (Navás, 1934) * '' A. kibonotoensis'' (van der Weele, 1910) * '' A. kinnaurensis'' (Gosh, 1977) * '' A. leai'' (Tillyard, 1917) * '' A. lii'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1999) * '' A. longwangshana'' (X.-k. Yang, 1998) * '' A. lophophora'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1990) * '' A. luaboensis'' (Tjeder, 1966) * '' A. luctuosa'' (Banks, 1911) * '' A. macleodi'' (Adams and Garland, 1983) * '' A. maghrebina'' (Hölzel & Ohm, 1984) * '' A. makrana'' (Hölzel, 1966) * '' A. mangkangensis'' (Dong et al., 2004) * '' A. marchionissa'' (Navás, 1915) * '' A. mauriciana'' (Hölzel & Ohm, 1991) * '' A. mediata'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1993) * '' A. medogana'' (C.-k. Yang et al. in Huang et al., 1988) * '' A. melanopis'' (Navás, 1914) * '' A. militaris'' (Hölzel & Ohm, 2000) * '' A. mira'' (Hölzel, 1973) * '' A. namibensis'' (Hölzel, 1993) * '' A. nautarum'' (Tillyard, 1917) * '' A. nicolaina'' (Navás, 1929) * '' A. nigra'' (McLachlan, 1869) * '' A. nigricornuta'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1990) * '' A. norfolkensis'' (Tillyard, 1917) * '' A. nubilata'' (Navás, 1910) * '' A. nyassalandica'' (Navás, 1914) * '' A. oralis'' (Navás, 1914) * '' A. parabola'' (Okamoto, 1919) * '' A. perfecta'' (Banks, 1895) * '' A. perpallida'' (Tjeder, 1966) * '' A. pervenosa'' (Tjeder, 1966) * '' A. phantosula'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1990) * '' A. phlebia'' (Navas, 1927) * '' A. physophlebia'' (Navas, 1914) * '' A. picteti'' (McLachlan, 1880) * '' A. pieli'' (Navás, 1931) * '' A. pilinota'' (Dong et al., 2004) * '' A. prasina'' (Burmeister, 1839) * '' A. pulchrina'' (Tjeder, 1966) * '' A. puncticollis'' (Banks, 1940) * '' A. punctilabris'' (McLachlan, 1894) * '' A. punctithorax'' (New, 1980) * '' A. qingchengshana'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1992) * '' A. qinlingensis'' (C.-k. Yang & X.-k. Yang, 1989) * '' A. raedarii'' (Hölzel & Ohm, 2000) * '' A. rothschildi'' (Navás, 1915) * '' A. rubicunda'' (Hölzel, 1993) * '' A. rubra'' (Hölzel et al., 1994) * '' A. sana'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1990) * '' A. sansibarica'' (Kolbe, 1897) * '' A. selenia'' (Navás, 1912) * '' A. sensitiva'' (Tjeder, 1940) * '' A. setosa'' (Hölzel & Ohm, 1995) * '' A. sierra'' (Banks, 1924) * '' A. spadix'' (Hölzel, 1988) * '' A. spissinervis'' (Tjeder, 1966) * '' A. subcostalis'' (McLachlan, 1882) * '' A. subcubitalis'' (Navás, 1901) * '' A. subflavifrons'' (Tjeder, 1949) * '' A. sybaritica'' (McLachlan in Fedchenko, 1875) * '' A. tacta'' (Navás, 1921) * '' A. teiresias'' (Hölzel & Ohm, 1982) * '' A. triactinata'' (New, 1980) * '' A. triangularis'' (Adams, 1978) * '' A. triangularis'' (C.-k. Yang & X.-x. Wang, 1994) (unreplaced junior homonym) * '' A. tridentata'' (X.-k. Yang & C.-k. Yang, 1990) * '' A. truncatata'' (X.-k. Yang et al. in X.-k. Yang et al., 2005) * '' A. umbrosa'' (Navás, 1914) * '' A. ussuriensis'' (Makarkin, 1985) * '' A. varians'' (Kimmins, 1959) * '' A. venosa'' (Rambur, 1838) * '' A. venosella'' (Esben-Petersen, 1920) * '' A. ventralis'' (Curtis, 1834) * '' A. venusta'' (Hölzel, 1974) * '' A. verna'' (C.-k. Yang & X.-k. Yang, 1989) * '' A. viridifrons'' (Hölzel & Ohm, 1999) * '' A. vitticlypea'' (C.-k. Yang & X.-x. Wang, 1990) * '' A. waitei'' (Tillyard, 1917) * '' A. wangi'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1992) * '' A. wuchangana'' (C.-k. Yang & X.-x. Wang, 1990) * '' A. xiamenana'' (C.-k. Yang et al., 1999) * '' A. yangi'' (X.-k. Yang & X.-x. Wang in X.-k. Yang et al., 2005) * '' A. yunnana'' (C.-k. Yang & X.-x. Wang, 1994) * '' A. yuxianensis'' (Bian & Li, 1992) * '' A. zelleri'' (Schneider, 1851) * '' A. zulu'' (Tjeder, 1966)

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