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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 » Triozidae » Bactericera » Bactericera minuta

Species Bactericera minuta

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
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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 Bactericera
Species minuta (Bactericera minuta)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Trioza arizonae Aulmann, 1912
Trioza assimilis Crawford, 1910
Trioza flori Crawford, 1911
Trioza louisianae Aulmann, 1912
Trioza marginata Crawford, 1910
Trioza minuta Crawford, 1910
Trioza nigra Crawford, 1910
Trioza nigrella Crawford, 1911
Trioza pomonae Aulmann, 1912
Trioza salicis Mally, 1895
Explanation of Names
Bactericera minuta (Crawford, 1910)
Size
3-3.5mm (1)
Identification
Color extremely variable; usually orange with various degree of black on head and thorax; abdomen usually green but occasionally dark orange. Wings typically immaculate, but var. arizonae with distinct dark marginal band on forewing.
Range
widespread (2)
Food
host: Salix (2)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Ouvrard D. (2013) Psyl'list - The World Psylloidea Database
Contributed by Chris Mallory on 26 June, 2015 - 10:22am

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