Psyllidae from Guam
Author
Cadwell, J. S.
text
1942
1942-06-01
Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 172
Honolulu, Hawaii
Insects of Guam I
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book chapter
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3.
Mesohomotomahibisci
(Froggatt).
Tyora hibisci
Froggatt
,
Linn. Soc. N. S.
Wales
, Proc.
26
:
287
, pl. 15, fig. 8, pl.
16
, fig. 18,
1902
.
Mesohomotonia
hibisci
(Froggatt)
Crawford
,
Ins.
Samoa
2
(
1
):
30
,
1927
.
Piti
,
April 30
,
Swezey
and
Usinger
;
Mt. Alifan
,
May 21
,
Swezey
and
Usinger
;
Machanao
,
June 30
, Aug. 6,
Swezey
;
Barrigada
,
July 22
,
Swezey
;
Ritidian Pt.
,
Aug. 6
,
Swezey
, all collected on
Hibiscus
tiliaceus
leaves.
Infestations
by this psyllid noted on same tree at
Inarajan
,
June 8
;
Fadian,
Aug. 19
;
Yigo
,
Oct. 21.
Collected by Fullaway
in 1911
.
Described from Brisbane,
Australia
, where it occurred on
Hibiscus tiliaceus
,
collected by Tryon. In the collection of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association are some specimens collected on
Hibiscus
at Suva,
Fiji
, Dec: 12, 1904, probably by Perkins. The species is also recorded from
New Caledonia
and Tahiti. In
Guam
, growing leaves of
Hibiscus tiliaceus
are infested, and the young insects are hidden by considerable white flocculent waxy material. Commonly found in all places. They are preyed on by larvae of a lacewing fly and a syrphid fly.