Generic synopsis of the jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psylloidea) from Colombia
Author
Rendón-Mera, Diana Isabel
Author
Serna, Francisco
Author
Burckhardt, Daniel
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-11-20
4350
3
journal volume
31376
10.11646/zootaxa.4350.3.2
c5176d49-ee06-4e6e-946c-7895b400b5ea
1175-5326
1059233
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Gyropsylla
Brèthes
(
Figs 10
,
77
)
Diagnosis:
Head about as wide as mesoscutum; vertex about 1.75 times wider than long; genae not forming processes, but expanded as a lobe-like swelling between antennae and eyes; frons forming elliptical/elongate sclerite, closed below the genae. Clypeus tubular, extended perpendicularly to lower head surface, with shoulderlike constriction medially (
Fig. 10
, arrow). Antenna longer than head width; both terminal setae truncate, one approximately 3 times the length of the other. Forewing with costal break; pterostigma from short and broad to long and very narrow. Veins R and M+Cu1 subequal, vein M moderately curved; cell cu1 much larger than m1. Hind leg with small meracanthus; area beneath meracanthus forming a rounded swelling (
Fig. 39
); metafemur apically and metatibia basally with a group of long stout bristles (
Fig. 40
); metatibia without genual spine, with a dense crown of about 10 apical spurs; metabasitarsus with two apical spurs.
Biology and damage:
Immatures feeding on young shoots and leaves on which they induce blister-shaped galls. Immatures are covered in waxy secretions and produce lots of honeydew (
Brèthes 1921
;
Iede & Machado 1989
;
Leite & Zanol 2001
).
Host-plants:
Ilex
(Aquifoliaceae)
(
Hodkinson 1989
; Burckhardt & Queiroz 2013).
Distribution:
Neotropic, Neartic and Oriental regions (Burckhardt & Queiroz 2013).
Examined
material:
Gyropsylla
sp.:
Nariño
: 15 (female)
Pasto
,
Obonuco
,
Feb-1985
, potato (
N. Ruiz
),
CTNI 59
.