Species Kuwayama medicaginis

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

Kuwayama medicaginis? Male? - Kuwayama medicaginis - male

Kuwayama medicaginis? Female? - Kuwayama medicaginis - female

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 Kuwayama

Species medicaginis (Kuwayama medicaginis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Paratrioza medicaginis Crawford, 1910

Epitrioza medicaginis (Crawford, 1910)

Explanation of Names

Kuwayama medicaginis (Crawford, 1910)

Size

3mm to wingtips (1)

Identification

Genae swollen ventrally into globose lobes, clypeus large and easily visible in anterior view. Male forceps bicuspidate, anal valve large, broad basally, terminating at narrow apical epiphysis; female genital segment moderately long, with both valves nearly equal in length (2)

Range

sw. US & Mexico (3)

Food

Unknown(4). Crawford recorded the host as Medicago sativa, but this is probably incorrect. Klyver recorded adults only from Chrysothamnus, Parosela, Trianthema portulacastrum, and Lepidium alyssoides(5). Peruvian species have been associated with Asteraceae(3).

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.	A monograph of the jumping plant-lice or Psyllidae of the New World David L. Crawford. 1914. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 85: 1-186.

3.	Ouvrard D. (2013) Psyl'list - The World Psylloidea Database

4.	The Nearctic Psylloidea (Insecta: Homoptera): an annotated check list Hodkinson, I.D. 1988. Journal of Natural History, 22 (1179-1243).

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

Contributed by Chris Mallory on 27 February, 2016 - 4:41pm

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