Heteropsylla quassiae Crawford 1914
Creators
- 1. Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, P. O. Box 147100, Gainesville, Florida 32614 - 7100 USA
- 2. Naturhistorisches Museum, Augustinergasse 2, 4001 Basel, Switzerland
Description
Heteropsylla quassiae Crawford, 1914
Materials examined. USA: Florida: Specimens from Collier, Miami-Dade, Monroe counties (FSCA, dry and slide mounted).
Diagnosis. Males of H. quassiae are recognized easily by the very short inner lobe of the parameres as seen in posterior view. Females have short, rounded terminalia (see key above).
Distribution. Caribbean islands (Cuba, Bahamas), USA (FL) (Ouvrard 2020). We treat this species as native to Florida.
Host plants. Lysiloma latisiliquum (L.) Benth. (Fabaceae)
Comments. Heteropsylla quassiae is common in suction trap samples from Miami-Dade County and has been found numerous times on Lysiloma latisiliquum (FSCA#s E2002-621, 4710, E2009-5534, E2012-4356, E2013- 3415, E2015-1530, 6419, E2016-3595, 1429). Little is known about the biology of this psyllid. We have four specimens from Stock Island (Monroe County) Florida collected on Flaveria linearis Lag. (Compositae) by H.V. Weems on 27.xii.1954, and three specimens collected on Key Largo (Monroe County) on 9.iv.1955 (no host listed) that are labeled as H. quassiae. All are females, thus their diagnosis is not completely certain; however, if these specimens are indeed H. quassiae, the 1954 collection is our earliest. The host record on F. linearis is doubtful.
Mitrapsylla Crawford, 1914
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Psyllidae
- Genus
- Heteropsylla
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Crawford
- Species
- quassiae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Heteropsylla quassiae Crawford, 1914 sec. Halbert & Burckhardt, 2020
References
- Crawford DL. 1914. A monograph of the jumping plant-lice or Psyllidae of the New World. United States National Museum Bulletin 85. Government Printing office; Washington, DC. 186 p., 30 plates.
- Ouvrard D. 2020 Psyl'list - The World Psylloidea Database. Available at http: // www. hemiptera-databases. com / psyllist. https: // doi. org / 10.5519 / 0029634. (Last accessed June 2020.)