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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 » Acizziinae » Acizzia

Genus Acizzia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Works Cited
Psyllid - Acizzia jamatonica Barklouse? - Acizzia jamatonica Psyllid - Acizzia jamatonica Bark Lice - Acizzia uncatoides tiny cicadoid? - Acizzia uncatoides Acacia Psyllid - Acizzia uncatoides - male Acizzia uncatoides Cacopsylla? - Acizzia uncatoides
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 Acizziinae
Genus Acizzia
Explanation of Names
Acizzia Heslop-Harrison, 1961
Numbers
4 spp. recorded in the US (Ulyshen & Miller 2007), 67 spp. worldwide (1)
Identification
Male proctiger with a conspicuous posterior lobe that may or may not bear a secondary fingerlike appendage (Wheeler & Hoebeke 2009) (photo). The cubital cell is also typically rather large
Range
Old World; among spp. recorded in our area, one sp. (A. jamatonica, se. US) is of E. Asian origin, and three (all invasive in CA) of Australian origin (Ulyshen & Miller 2007)
Food
hosts: legume trees (Fabaceae): Albizia, Acacia, Grevillea (Ulyshen & Miller 2007)
Print References
Ulyshen, M.D. & D.R. Miller. 2007. First record of Acizzia jamatonica (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) in North America: friend or foe? Florida Entomologist 90(3) (pdf)
Wheeler, A.G. & E.R. Hoebeke. 2009. Acizzia jamatonica (Kuwayama) (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psyllidae): U.S. Distribution of a Recently Detected Asian Psyllid Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 111(2):505-514. (BioOne)
Works Cited
1.Ouvrard D. (2013) Psyl'list - The World Psylloidea Database
Contributed by v belov on 8 November, 2010 - 8:13am
Additional contributions by Chris Mallory
Last updated 18 February, 2016 - 6:20pm

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