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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 » Platycoryphinae » Platycorypha » Tipu Psyllid (Platycorypha nigrivirga)

Species Platycorypha nigrivirga - Tipu Psyllid

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Platycorypha nigrivirga - male - female tipu psyllid - Platycorypha nigrivirga Locust Psyllid - Platycorypha nigrivirga - male Locust Psyllid - Platycorypha nigrivirga - female Locust Psyllid - Platycorypha nigrivirga - female Psyllid - Platycorypha nigrivirga Psyllid - Platycorypha nigrivirga Unknown hopper nymph on Cassia tree. - Platycorypha nigrivirga
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 Platycoryphinae
Genus Platycorypha
Species nigrivirga (Tipu Psyllid)
Explanation of Names
Platycorypha nigrivirga Burckhardt, 1987
Identification
adult color pattern, including dark transverse stripe between the eyes, unique among NA psyllids (1)
Range
native to S. America (Argentina-Brazil-Bolivia), adventive elsewhere, incl. so. CA (coastal Los Angeles Basin) and Europe(1)
Food
on rosewood tree, tipu (Tipuana tipu, Fabaceae), a landscape ornamental of S. American origin widely grown around the world(1)
Remarks
first detected in our area in San Diego Co. in 2008(1)
Works Cited
1.Platycorypha nigrivirga Burckhardt (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psylloidea), tipu psyllid, new to North America
A. Rung, G. Arakelian, R. Gill, N. Nisson. 2009. Insecta Mundi 0097: 1-5.
Contributed by v belov on 21 November, 2011 - 7:48am
Additional contributions by Chris Mallory
Last updated 19 May, 2017 - 4:25pm

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