Calophya rhopenjabensis Li, 2011

Cho, Geonho, Burckhardt, Daniel & Lee, Seunghwan, 2022, Check list of jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) of the Korean Peninsula, Zootaxa 5177 (1), pp. 1-91 : 24-25

Calophya rhopenjabensis Li, 2011

Calophya rhopenjabensis Li, 2011: 454 .

Calophya elaeocarpae Li, 2011: 460 , syn. nov.

Material examined. South Korea: 20 ♂, 28 ♀, 5 immatures, JJ, Jeju-si , Yeon-dong, Halla Arboretum, N33°28'05.56" E126°29'33.66", 100 m, 29.iv.2016, Toxicodendron succedaneum (G. Cho) , ( SNU, slide and dry mounted, in 95% ethanol) .

Distribution in Korea. JJ (SNU).

Host plant. Toxicodendron succedaneum (L.) Kuntze ( Anacardiaceae ).

Comments. New record for Korea. Calophya rhopenjabensis shares with C. nigridorsalis the shape of the forewing, the strongly divergent genal processes and the host plant. It differs from the latter in the narrow and sinuated paramere, the distal segment of the aedeagus that is angularly curved in the middle and bears weakly sclerotised elongate thumb-like processes ventrally in the middle, and the blunt lateral valvulae in the female terminalia.

Li(2011) described Calophya elaeocarpae and C.rhopenjabensis based on two and seven specimens, respectively. Adults of the former were found on Elaeocarpus L. ( Elaeocarpaceae ) or Symplocos Jacq. (Symplocaceae) and of the latter on Rhus L. ( Anacardiaceae ). According to Li (2011), the two species differ in the antennal colour, segments 2–10 yellow or yellowish brown in the former and segments 8–10 or 9–10 brown or black in the latter. There are no obvious morphological differences between the two and we interpret the colour differences as result of different ages of the specimens of the two taxa. For this reason, we synonymise the two nominal species.