Species Heteropsylla cubana Crawford, 1914

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• Heteropsylla cubana Crawford, D.L. 1914. A monograph of the jumping plant-lice or Psyllidae of the New World. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 85: i-ix 1-186 [46].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♂ (?dry) (Tuthill, L.D. 1945. Further observations on the Psyllidae of Cuba (Homoptera). Entomological News 56: 235–238 [237] invalid subsequent designation of lectotype), Havana, Cuba.
• Rhinocola incisa Šulc, K. 1914. Eine neue Psylla und eine neue Rhinocola aus Surinam. Sitzungsberichte der königlich böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Prag. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 1914(4): 1-10 [4].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MMB ♂ (dry), Paramaribo, Surinam.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Burckhardt, D. 1986. Nomenclaturial note on Heteropsylla cubana Crawford (Homoptera, Psylloidea), a new pest in Pacific countries. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 93: 1023-1024 [1023].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burckhardt, D. 1986. Nomenclaturial note on Heteropsylla cubana Crawford (Homoptera, Psylloidea), a new pest in Pacific countries. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 93: 1023-1024 [1023]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide tropical, subtropical.

Introduced from West Pacific region (PNG or Solomon Islands).

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: free-living, sap-sucker (associated flora: Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit [MIMOSACEAE] Lead Tree).

General References

Muddiman, S.B., Hodkinson, I.D. & Hollis, D. 1992. Legume-feeding psyllids of the genus Heteropsylla (Homoptera: Psylloidea). Bulletin of Entomological Research 82: 73-117 [84]

Takara, J.M., Dinker, R.J., Nagamine, W.T. & Teramoto, K.K. 1991. Biology and reproductive rate of the Leucaena psyllid, Heteropsylla cubana Crawford. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 30: 23-29 [dated 1990, published 1991] [23] (biology in Hawai'i)

Taylor, K.L. & Carver, M. 1991. Superfamily Psylloidea. pp. 448-450 in Naumann, I.D. (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 1 542 pp. [449]

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