Psylla (from the Greek psulla, meaning flea) is the type genus of sap-sucking insects in the family Psyllidae. There are at least 110 described species in Psylla.[2][3][4] Species within the genus feed on various host plants.
| Psylla | |
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| Psylla alni | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Psyllidae |
| Subfamily: | Psyllinae |
| Genus: | Psylla Geoffroy, 1762 |
| Diversity | |
| at least 110 species | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Some agricultural pests, previously placed here, are now in related genera, such as Cacopsylla (which includes at least two species harmful to fruit trees); other revised species names include the "Albizia fly" (Acizzia jamatonica, in the same family) and the laurel fly (Trioza alacris in the family Triozidae).
Selected species and hosts
edit- Psylla alni feeds on alders: this is the type species (as Chermes alni Linnaeus, 1758)
- Psylla apicalis feeds on kōwhai trees[5]
- Psylla betulae feeds on birches
- Psylla buxi feeds on box (Buxus species)
- Psylla cordata feeds on limes (Tilia species)
- Psylla frodobagginsi feeds on kōwhai trees[5]
- Psylla oblonga feeds on Albizia odoratissima
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Burckhardt, Daniel; Ouvrard, David; Percy, Diana M. (2021). "An updated classification of the jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) integrating molecular and morphological evidence". European Journal of Taxonomy (736): 137–182. doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.736.1257.
- ^ "Browse Psylla". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-13.
- ^ "Psylla". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-13.
- ^ "Psylla Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-13.
- ^ a b Yue, Bi-Song; Martoni, Francesco; Armstrong, Karen (2019). "Resolving an 87-year-old taxonomical curiosity with the description of Psylla frodobagginsi sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psyllidae), a second distinct Psylla species on the New Zealand endemic plant kōwhai". PLOS ONE. 14 (9): e0221316. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1421316M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0221316. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 6750570. PMID 31532775.