Baccharis texana, Crawford, 1914

Percy, Diana M., Rung, Alessandra & Hoddle, Mark S., 2012, An annotated checklist of the psyllids of California (Hemiptera: Psylloidea), Zootaxa 3193, pp. 1-27 : 18

texana Crawford, 1914

Type locality: USA, Texas.

Additional distribution: USA, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah; Mexico; Nicaragua; Peru.

Host plant: Prosopis juliflora , P. chilensis and P. glandulosa . Also recorded less reliably from Pithecellobium sp., Sphaeralcea angustifolia , Monarda citriodora , and Chrysopsis sp. Remarks: Jensen (1945) suggested that Prosopis chilensis may be the primary host species.

Homotoma Guérin-Méneville ficus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality: Europe.

Additional distribution: Warmer regions of western Palaearctic; introduced in USA. Host plant: Ficus carica .

Remarks: First recorded in California in 1970s (CSCA).

Kuwayama Crawford medicaginis (Crawford, 1910)

Type locality: USA, Colorado.

Additional distribution: USA, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas; Mexico. Host plant: Unknown, possibly Medicago sativa .

Livia Latreille caricis ( Crawford, 1914)

Type locality: USA, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia; Canada, British Columbia.

Additional distribution: USA, Idaho.

Host plant: Carex sp.

Remarks: Hodkinson and Bird (2000) note that some Californian specimens show some unique morphological variation.

Parasitoids: A related Livia species in Europe is parasitized by an itonid gall midge ( Lestodiplosis liviae Rübsaamen ).