Systematics, biogeography and host-plant relationships of the Neotropical jumping plant-louse genus Russelliana (Hemiptera: Psylloidea)
Author
Serbina, Liliya
Author
Burckhardt, Daniel
text
Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
33062
10.5281/zenodo.575325
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1175-5326
575325
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Russelliana
sp. 5
Russelliana
sp.
Burckhardt, 2008b
: 198
.
Material
examined.
Argentina
:
1 ♀
,
Province
Mendoza
,
Mendoza
Valley
,
Punta de Vacas
,
2400 m
,
30.xii.1995
,
Verbena
sp., subalpine/alpine scrub (
D. Burckhardt
) #28 (
MHNG
, dry)
;
1 ♀
, same but above
Villa Vicencia
,
50 km
NW
Mendoza
,
1800
–2200 m,
18.i.1997
,
Mulguraea scoparia
[
Diostea scoparia
], low scrub (
D. Burckhardt
) #15(7) (
MHNG
, dry)
;
2 ♂
,
1 ♀
, same but
Zoológico
,
vii.1997
(
S. Roig
) (
NHMB
, dry).
Distribution.
Reported as
Russelliana
sp. from
Argentina
(
Mendoza
) (
Burckhardt 2008b
)
.
Comments.
The specimens resemble
R. marionae
and
theresae
, in long genal processes, long antennae, and in the presence of a distinct brown pattern on the forewing membrane. They differ from the two species in a smaller body size and details of the forewing pattern.