The psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) of Florida: newly established and rarely collected taxa and checklist Author Halbert, Susan E. Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, P. O. Box 147100, Gainesville, Florida 32614 - 7100 USA Author Burckhardt, Daniel Naturhistorisches Museum, Augustinergasse 2, 4001 Basel, Switzerland text Insecta Mundi 2020 2020-09-25 2020 788 1 88 journal article 7877 10.5281/zenodo.4564694 cf4856a2-ba4a-4a53-bcf4-9ac3dc863677 1942-1354 4564694 2454C96B-5D17-4162-A3BB-296F5C0DC216 Heteropsylla fusca Crawford, 1914 ( Fig. 147 ) Materials examined. USA : Florida : Miami-Dade County : Homestead, Fruit and Spice Park, Haematoxylum campechianum (five collections, FSCA , slide and dry mounted). A specimen also was intercepted in a garden on a cruise ship docked in Broward County at Port Everglades ( FSCA # E2011-3699) ( FSCA , slide mounted). Diagnosis. This is the only Florida species in which non-teneral specimens have darkened forewings and thorax. See the key above for additional genitalic features. Distribution. Neotropics ( Costa Rica , Colombia , many Caribbean islands, Mexico ), Pacific islands (Hawaii, Mariana Islands ), western USA ( California ) ( Ouvrard 2020 ), USA (FL) ( Halbert 2003a ). Host plants. Haematoxylum L. spp. ( Fabaceae ). Our collections indicate the Florida host is Haematoxylum campechianum L. A consistent population can be found on the H. campechianum tree at the Fruit and Spice Park in Homestead, FL (Miami-Dade County) (FSCA#s E2003-560, 2156, 2542, E2004-2064, E2005-2469). Comments. It was thought that Heteropsylla fusca was reported in Florida ( Muddiman et al. 1992 ) based on a specimen at the United States National Museum (USNM) from “Arrocera, Florida,” collected in April 1957 by “J. Acuna.” However, this location is in Florida, Camaguey Province , Cuba . Julian Acuña, who worked in Cuba , is the collector, and “Arrocera” probably refers to a rice field (Robert E. Woodruff, FSCA, personal communication, 2011). Thus, ours is the first Florida ( USA ) record. Evidently, the species is native to the Caribbean but has become established in the Pacific islands and California .