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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Psylloidea » Psyllidae » Psyllinae » Spanioneura » Boxwood Psyllid (Spanioneura buxi)

Species Spanioneura buxi - Boxwood Psyllid

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Hopper with Blue head - Spanioneura buxi

Leafhopper with green tinted wings - Spanioneura buxi

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 Psyllidae

Subfamily Psyllinae

Genus Spanioneura

Species buxi (Boxwood Psyllid)

Explanation of Names

Psylla buxi (Linné 1758)

Size

3.5-4.7 mm(1)

Identification

see comment here by Chris Mallory.

Range

Native to Europe, introduced in North America(2)

Food

host: Buxus(2)

Life Cycle

Eggs are laid under bud scales during July and Aug. The first winter is spent in the nymphal stage. Feeding resumes in spring and adults emerge in early May.(3)

Remarks

Nymphs occur on young terminal leaves, causing them to curl(4)

See Also

Spanioneura fonscolombii also occurs on Buxus but is very different in appearance.

Internet References

Species page (Bantock & Botting 2010)(5)

images of adults and nymphs (Rosetta 2014)(6)

Fact sheet (Missouri Botanical Garden)

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.	The psyllids of America North of Mexico: (Psyllidae: Homoptera) (Subfamilies Psyllinae and Triozinae) Tuthill, L.D. . 1943. Iowa State College Journal of Science 17: 443-660.

3.	Eastern Forest Insects Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.

4.	Biological Notes and New Records of North American Chermidae (Homoptera) Klyver, F.D. 1932. Entomological News 43.

5.	Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera

6.	Pacific Northwest Nursery IPM Website

Contributed by Chris Mallory on 28 May, 2015 - 8:42pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Marci Hess, edanko
Last updated 16 July, 2023 - 1:11pm

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