Species Heterotrioza chenopodii

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Is this Psyllidae? - Heterotrioza chenopodii

Red-eyed something - Heterotrioza chenopodii

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Sternorrhyncha (Plant-parasitic Hemipterans)

Superfamily Psylloidea

Family Triozidae

Genus Heterotrioza

Species chenopodii (Heterotrioza chenopodii)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Trioza chenopodii Reuter, 1876,

Trioza obliqua Thomson, 1877

Explanation of Names

Heterotrioza chenopodii (Reuter, 1876)

Size

1.9-2.3 mm(1) [2.6-3.1 mm for T. obliqua in(2)]

Identification

The only Triozid recorded from our area that utilizes Chenopodiaceae as a host. Adults extremely variable in color, with younger individuals yellowish with brown markings and green abdomen; older individuals with uniformly dark brown dorsum. Full description in (3)

Range

Widespread Palaearctic species; adventive in North America and now known to occur in e. US, the Maritime Provinces, Nebraska, and along the Pacific Coast (BC-CA)(4)

Food

Chenopodiaceae, including Atriplex and Chenopodium(3)

Remarks

Seasonally polymorphic (and sexually dimorphic), with a short-winged autumn-winter form and a long-winged summer form(3)(4)

earliest record in our area: VA 1988(4)

Works Cited

1.	Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. I: Apterygota, Palaeoptera, Hemimetabola Bei-Bienko G.Y., ed. 1964. Leningrad: Zool. Inst. 935 pp.

2.	Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera Lehr, P. A., ed. 1988. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House.

3.	Trioza chenopodii Reuter: First North American record of an old world psyllid (Homoptera: Psylloidea: Triozidae) Wheeler A.G., Hoebeke E.R. 1997. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington Vol. 99 pp. 409-414.

4.	Trioza chenopodii Reuter (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Triozidae): new western North American records of a Eurasian immigrant Wheeler A.G., Hoebeke E.R. 2013. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 115: 201-204.

Contributed by Chris Mallory on 27 May, 2015 - 4:21pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 15 February, 2016 - 2:28pm

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