Potential economic pests of solanaceous crops: a new species of Solanum - feeding psyllid from Australia and first record from New Zealand of Acizzia solanicola (Hemiptera: Psyllidae)
Author
Taylor, Gary S.
Author
Kent, Deborah S.
text
Zootaxa
2013
3613
3
257
273
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3613.3.4
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1175-5326
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Acizzia solanicola
Kent & Taylor
New records since Kent & Taylor 2010:
AUSTRALIA
, New South
Wales
[from
S. mauritianum
and deposited in AMS, unless otherwise stated]
: 23, 1Ƥ (dried) Sydney Univ.,
April 1951
, A.R. Woodhill, wild tobacco (ANIC); 33, 4Ƥ
Macquarie
Pass,
4.xi.1956
, E.F. Riek,
datura
(ANIC); 103, 16Ƥ (ethanol) Repton, Northbank Road,
30°27.40′S
,
152°55.44′E
,
22.xii.2009
, DSK; 23, 3Ƥ, 3 nymphs (ethanol) Repton, Perrys Road Lookout,
30°25.93′S
,
153°01.12′E
,
22.xii.2009
, DSK; 133, 10Ƥ, 4 nymphs (ethanol) Telegraph Point, Mooney Street,
31°19.79′S
,
152°47.74′E
,
7.vii.2009
, DSK; 13, 4Ƥ (ethanol) Telegraph Point, Mooney Street,
31°19.79′S
,
152°47.74′E
,
18.xii.2010
, DSK; 23, 1Ƥ (ethanol) The Bucketts Way, near Krambach Road to Gloucester,
32°02.46′S
,
152°14.46′E
,
14.v.2009
DSK; 113, 8Ƥ, 3 nymphs (ethanol) Paterson, Maitland Road,
32°36.21′S
,
151°37.06′E
,
24.vii.2009
, DSK; 163, 14Ƥ, many [>10] nymphs (ethanol) Somersby, Keighley Road,
33°22.79′S
,
151°17.11′E
,
29.iv.2010
, DSK; Mangrove Mountain,
33°19.39′S
,
151°10.83′E
,
15.ii.2011
, on angel’s trumpet,
Brugmansia
sp. (personal communication, M. Steiner); Kulnura Mountain, George Downes Drive,
33°13.87′S
,
151°13.13′E
,
29.iv.2010
, on eggplant,
S. melongena
in nursery (personal observations, DSK); 73, 5Ƥ, 5 nymphs (ethanol) Sydney, North Rocks,
33°47.25′S
,
151°00.44′E
,
20.v.2009
, DSK & B. May, on cape gooseberry,
Physalis peruviana
,
on potted plant in garden; 93, 10Ƥ, 3 nymphs (ethanol) Stanwell Park, near Stanwell Creek,
34°13.81'S
,
150°58.93'E
,
15.xi.2009
, DSK; 53, 7Ƥ (ethanol) Kiama, South Kiama Drive,
34°41.06′S
,
150°50.83′E
,
20.i.2010
, DSK; 23, 7Ƥ (ethanol) Tomakin, George Bass Drive near Dunns Creek,
35°49.34′S
,
150°11.24′E
,
20.i.2010
, DSK; 73, 5Ƥ (ethanol) Bodalla, Princes Highway opposite church,
36°05.13′S
,
150°02.85′E
,
21.i.2010
, DSK; 23, 2Ƥ (ethanol) North Narooma, Princes Highway near Raymond Street,
36°12.32′S
,
150°07.19′E
,
21.i.2010
, DSK.
AUSTRALIA
, South
Australia
:
53, 6Ƥ, 12 nymphs (slide), 163, 24Ƥ, 3 nymphs (dried), 73, 14Ƥ, 77 nymphs (ethanol) Hiltaba Station,
34°41.890′S
,
135°31.735′E
,
19.xi.2012
, GST (ANIC, SAMA, WINC).
NEW ZEALAND
: [sent to GST by Drs Alan Flynn and James Haw, MPIB for confirmation of species identification]: 13, 1Ƥ (slide) Papatoetoe Cemetery, B. Rogan,
14.ii.2012
,
Solanum mauritianum
,
IDC T12_0597 (MPIB); 13, 1Ƥ (slide) same data (WINC); 13, 1Ƥ (ethanol) same data (MPIB); 1 nymph (slide) 231 Morrin Road, St Johns, J. Richmond,
14.iii.2012
,
Solanum mauritianum
IDC T12_01025 (WINC); 2 nymphs (ethanol) same data (MPIB).
A chronological account of records for
A. solanicola
is given in Table 2.
Acizzia solanicola
was first recorded from
S. mauritianum
at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney in 1936. It was again collected at Sydney University in 1951, and at
Macquarie
Pass, about
100 km
S of Sydney in 1956. The first record of this species from cultivated eggplant was at Mangrove Mountain, about
60 km
N of Sydney in 2005, followed by a subsequent record retrieved from a sticky trap placed near cultivated eggplant at Virginia,
30 km
N of Adelaide, South
Australia
in 2008 (
1,200 km
W Sydney) (Kent & Taylor 2010). It was collected regularly from
S. mauritianum
and cultivated
S. melongena
in the Sydney region during
2007 and 2008
. In 2008, it was discovered at Bulahdelah,
180 km
N of Sydney, and at Bilpin,
75 km
E. In 2009, additional sites were recorded at Nabiac,
220 km
N Sydney, Moorland (
270 km
N), Telegraph Point (
310 km
N), Kempsey (
360 km
N) and Glenreagh (
450 km
N). In late 2009, and early 2010 additional sites were recorded at Stanwell Park (
40 km
S Sydney), Kiama (
100 km
S); and the distribution extended to Tomakin (
240 km
S), Bodalla (
270 km
S) and Narooma (
280 km
S). All new records were collected from
S. mauritianum
.
In early 2012, it was discovered on
S. mauritianum
near Auckland in
New Zealand
(
2,200 km
E Sydney), and in
November 2012
a population was discovered on a native Australian host,
S. petrophilum
on Hiltaba Station, Gawler Ranges, South
Australia
. Its current range extends from Narooma to Glenreagh comprising
750 km
of coastal and subcoastal New South
Wales
, to a single known population on Hiltaba Station in semi-arid central South
Australia
, and with restricted localities near Adelaide, SA and Auckland,
NZ
. The Australian distribution of
A. solanicola
and its hosts are presented in
Figs 12–13
.