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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Psylloidea » Jumping Plant Lice (Psyllidae)

Family Psyllidae - Jumping Plant Lice

Classification · Identification · Food · Remarks · Internet References
Plant louse, Psyllid Insect Galls - Pachypsylla venusta Psyllid ceanothus psyllid Psyllid Hackberry gall psyllid nymph - Pachypsylla celtidismamma Tiny heteropteran psyllids - male - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Sternorrhyncha (Plant-parasitic Hemipterans)
Superfamily Psylloidea
Family Psyllidae (Jumping Plant Lice)
Identification
Adults have a transverse head with protuberant eyes and three ocelli, 6- to 10-segmented antennae, and wings with reduced but conspicuous venation.
Food
Plant food. Most are very host specific, feeding on only one species or a very limited number of related species.
Remarks
Many are gall makers.
They can be serious pests.
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U. of Florida.
Contributed by tom murray on 24 May, 2005 - 6:29pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Beatriz Moisset, ceiseman
Last updated 7 December, 2009 - 4:03pm

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