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Genus Purshivora

Mountain Mahogany Psyllid - Purshivora brevistigmata - male Mountain Mahogany Psyllid - Purshivora aculeata - female Mountain Mahogany Psyllid - Purshivora aculeata - male Mountain Mahogany Psyllid - Purshivora aculeata - male Mountain Mahogany Psyllid - Purshivora aculeata - female Purshivora - Purshivora pubescens Desert Senna Psyllid - Purshivora nigranervosa - female Cacopsylla brevistigmata - Purshivora brevistigmata - 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 Psyllidae
Subfamily Psyllinae
Genus Purshivora
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
both member species used to be treated in Arytaina(1)
Explanation of Names
Purshivora Heslop-Harrison 1961
Numbers
2 spp. in the genus, both in our area(1)
Identification
Refer to Heslop-Harrison (1961)
Range
w. NA(1)
Food
hosts: Purshia tridentata (Rosaceae)(1)
Print References
Heslop-Harrison, G. 1961. The Arytainini of the subfamily Psyllinae, Hemiptera-Homoptera, family Psyllidae. -II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13(3): 417-439.
Works Cited
1.Ouvrard D. (2013) Psyl'list - The World Psylloidea Database
Contributed by v belov on 28 August, 2013 - 6:12pm
Additional contributions by Chris Mallory
Last updated 17 February, 2016 - 4:36pm

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