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0000-0002-4082-5459
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University of Adelaide
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-01-2021
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12518
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-11-2020
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12511
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 22-06-2018
DOI: 10.3390/D10030050
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2021
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12525
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2018
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12343
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-05-2018
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12278
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 05-06-2020
Abstract: The superfamily Psylloidea includes numerous species which play a key role in Australian ecology and bio ersity, as well as pests and biological control agents, and sometimes threatened species of conservation concern. Different psyllid s ling and collection techniques are usually performed depending on the nature and aim of the study: from the beating and sweeping of psyllid host plants for conservation and bio ersity assessment, to suction and sticky traps in agriculture. Due to a general lack of information on its efficacy for psyllids, however, light trapping has not usually been employed. Here we present the results obtained trapping psyllids using different light sources and we discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this technique to assess psyllid bio ersity. In particular, we highlight the strength of using this methodology paired with DNA barcoding, to cast some light on psyllid bio ersity. The results obtained here suggest that the psyllid fauna of Australia is heavily understudied and the number of undescribed species might be many times higher than previously expected. Additionally, we report, for the first time, the species Trioza adventicia Tuthill 1952, and Cryptoneossa triangula Taylor 1990 in the state of Queensland.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 23-12-2019
DOI: 10.1017/S0007485319000695
Abstract: The ‘Eugenia psyllid’ or ‘Lilly pilly psyllid’, widely recognized in Australia and in the USA as Trioza eugeniae Froggatt (Hemiptera: Triozidae), is not T. eugeniae , but rather T. adventicia Tuthill. In this study we assessed morphological comparisons of materials from throughout the native and introduced ranges and re-examined original descriptions of both taxa, together with Froggatt's type specimens of T. eugeniae . Furthermore, through DNA barcoding analyses, we confirmed the validity of both T. adventicia and T. eugeniae as separate species. We re-described both species to include additional characters not previously included and designated a lectotype for T. eugeniae . T. eugeniae has smaller fore wings that are slightly more elongate. These lack infuscation around veins R and R 1 , vein Rs is relatively longer, meeting the costa closer to the wing apex with certain veins bearing long, fine ergent setae, a character not previously described. It has consistently three inner and one outer metatibial spurs. The male parameres appear narrowly pyriform with a weak dorsolateral lobe and weakly sclerotized apices. T. adventicia has larger fore wings that are slightly more ovate with dark infuscation around veins R and R 1 vein Rs is relatively shorter, meeting the costa further from the wing apex, with veins lacking long, fine ergent setae. The usual configuration of two inner and one outer metatibial spurs, previously used to separate the two species, appears inconsistent. The male parameres appear a little more broadly pyriform with slightly more sclerotized apices. T. eugeniae refers to a distinct species which has a restricted distribution only in its native range in southern subcoastal New South Wales, Australia. T. adventicia refers to a separate species, with a natural distribution in eastern subcoastal Australia, but has been introduced widely in southern Australia, to New Zealand and the USA. This study elucidates a long history of misidentification of T. eugeniae in the nursery industry and in almost 30 years of literature on its biological control in the USA. Regardless, the biological control program, unknowingly, targeted the correct species of psyllid, T. adventicia , in its foreign exploration and importation of the appropriate parasitoid as a biocontrol agent in the USA. Despite being firmly entrenched in both the nursery trade and scientific literature, the name T. eugeniae is misapplied. While the acceptance of the valid name, T. adventicia , might be regarded as both problematic and protracted, this is the correct taxonomical attribution.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2021
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12519
Publisher: Magnolia Press
Date: 11-01-2023
DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5228.1.3
Abstract: Acizzia convector Burckhardt & Taylor, sp. nov., a psyllid originating from Australia, is described from material from Australia (NT), South and Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaysia [Sabah], Singapore and Thailand) and North America (USA [Florida from six counties]). The new species is diagnosed and illustrated, and a key is provided to identify the adults of Acizzia species adventive in the New World. The new species develops on Acacia auriculiformis and A. mangium (Fabaceae), two mimosoids planted and widely naturalised throughout the tropics. While the presence of A. convector sp. nov. in Florida is probably recent (earliest record from October 2014), it occurs in Southeast Asia at least since the 1980s. The wide distribution of the host plants in tropical Africa and South America would allow the psyllids also to occur there.
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