Family CALOPHYIDAE

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Introduction

A small family of 90 species in eight genera distributed mainly in the Neotropical and Oriental Regions but with a few species found in the Holarctic region. Host plants are mainly in the Rutales (Anacardiaceae, Burseraceae, Meliaceae, Mimosaceae, Rutaceae and Simaroubaceae) but also Proteaceae, Sapotaceae and Theaceae. Where larvae are known they are usually gall-inducing.

Four species in the family are known to develop on Mango in the Oriental Region (Mathur 1975: 4, 76, 92, 95) and one of these, Calophya mangiferae, is now recorded from Australia. In total, three described species in two non-endemic genera are known from Australia.

There is no comprehensive publication on the family. The largest genus, Calophya, which includes two-thirds of the known species of the family was reviewed by Burckhardt & Basset (2000); the Central American fauna was covered by Brown & Hodkinson (1988). Burckhardt (1992) considered that, as currently constituted, the Family is polyphyletic.

General References

Brown, R.G. & Hodkinson, I.D. 1988. Taxonomy and ecology of the jumping plant-lice of Panama (Homoptera: Psylloidea). Entomonograph 9: 1-304

Burckhardt, D. 1992. Notes on the Indo-Australian plant louse genus Cecidopsylla (Homoptera, Psylloidea) with descriptions of two new species. Phytophaga. Palermo 3: 73-86

Burckhardt, D. & Basset, Y. 2000. The jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) associated with Schinus (Anacardiaceae); systematics, biogeography and host plant relationships. Journal of Natural History 34: 57-115

Burckhardt, D. & Ouvrard, D. 2012. A revised classification of the jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea). Zootaxa 3509: 1-34 (subfamilies recognised)

Mathur, R.N. 1975. Psyllidae of the Indian Subcontinent. New Delhi : ICAR xii 429 pp.

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