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A new citrus‐feeding psyllid from the Comoro Islands, with a review of the Diaphorina amoena species group (Homoptera)
Author(s) -
HOLLIS DAVID
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
systematic entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0307-6970
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1987.tb00547.x
Subject(s) - diaphorina citri , biology , host (biology) , homoptera , pest analysis , key (lock) , botany , genus , zoology , ecology , hemiptera
. Analysis of host plant data for the seventy‐one species of Diaphorina shows the genus to be unusually polyphagous, the species developing on eighteen families of dicotyledonous angiosperms. Apart from the common Asian citrus pest, Diaphorina citri , a second citrus‐feeding species is described and discussed. This species belongs to the amoena species‐group which is defined and a key to nine of the ten included species is given. Seven new species are described: flavipennis sp.n. and nigripennis sp.n. from East Africa on Strychnos usambarensis; huila sp.n. from Angola on Ptaeroxylon obliquum; turned sp.n., from South Africa (host unknown); orantimina sp.n. from Madagascar (host unknown); auberti sp.n. from Comoro Islands on citrus trees; and bispinulata sp.n. from Madagascar (host unknown).