Species Acizzia acaciae (Maskell, 1894)

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• Psylla acaciae Maskell, W.M. 1894. On a new species of Psylla. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 30: 171-173 [171].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM 1 adult (dry) (see Deitz, L.L. & Tocker, M.F. 1980. W.M. Maskell's Homoptera: Species-group names and type-material. Psyllidae. DSIR Information Series 146: 55–56 [55]), Wellington, New Zealand.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

SE Australia, also New Zealand (original description).

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: free-living, sap-sucker (associated flora: Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. [FABACEAE] Blackwood).

General References

Ferris, G.F. & Klyver, F.D. 1932. Report upon a collection of Chermidae (Homoptera) from New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 63: 34-61 (+ 10) [50] (in Psyllia)

Heslop-Harrison, G. 1949. A new Indo-Malayan genus and species of the family Psyllidae (Hemiptera: Homoptera). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 85: 161-164 [162] (in Neopsylla)

Loginova, M.M. 1977. A classification of the subfamily Arytaininae Crawf. (Homoptera, Psyllidae). 2. A review of the genera of the tribe Cyamophilini. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 56: 577-587 [in Russian, English translation, Entomol. Rev. Washington 56: 64-71] [577]

Tuthill, L.D. 1952. On the Psyllidae of New Zealand (Homoptera). Pacific Science 6: 83-125 [87] (in Psylla (Acizzia))

Yen, A.L. 1980. The taxonomy and comparative ecology of selected psyllids (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psylloidea) on Acacia species (Mimosaceae). Unpublished PhD Thesis, Zoology Department, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria. 465 pp. [273, 291] (in Psylla)

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