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Psylla (from the Greek psulla, meaning flea) is a genus of sap-sucking insects belonging to the order Hemiptera. There are at least 110 described species in Psylla.[1][2][3] 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 | |
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Some harmful species commonly known as flies belong to neighbouring genera, such as Cacopsylla (which includes most of the pyslla harmful to fruit trees), the Albizia fly (Acizzia jamatonica, from the Psyllidae family) and the laurel fly (Trioza alacris).
Species and hosts
edit- Psylla alni feeds on alders
- Psylla apicalis feeds on kōwhai trees[4]
- 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[4]
- Psylla oblonga feeds on Albizia odoratissima
- Psylla pyri feeds on European pear trees
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "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.
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