Species Neotriozella pyrifolii

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

Another pool bug.. - Neotriozella pyrifolii

Psyllid found on Styrax americana - Neotriozella pyrifolii - male

Psyllid found on Styrax americana - Neotriozella pyrifolii

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 Neotriozella

Species pyrifolii (Neotriozella pyrifolii)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Trioza pyrifoliae Forbes, 1885

Neotriozella pyrifoliae (Forbes, 1885)

Neotriozella ottowaensis (Patch, 1912)

Trioza immaculata Crawford, 1910

Neotriozella immaculata (Crawford, 1910)

Explanation of Names

Neotriozella pyrifolii (Forbes, 1885)

Size

3.5mm (1)

Identification

Genal processes slender, vertical, as long or longer than vertex, closely appressed; head large, about as broad as thorax, antennae about twice as long as width of head; forewings long, about 3x as long as wide, medial cell longer than cubital, vein Rs very long, sinuate; hind tibia with 2 basal spurs and 3 inner apical spines. Female genital segment long, dorsal valve longer than ventral, ventral valve slender, apically acute. General color orange-red, head and abdomen darker; thorax with two dark lines; antennae dark; genal processes white, sometimes brown apically (2)(3)

Range

Eastern USA (4)

Food

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

3.	The Jumping Place Lice of Ohio (Homoptera: Chermidae) Caldwell, J.S. 1938. Ohio Biological Survey.

4.	Mallory C. (2014-) Psyllids of North America

Contributed by Chris Mallory on 24 February, 2017 - 1:53pm

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