Euphalerus nidifex Schwarz, 1904

Materials examined. USA: Florida: Specimens from Charlotte, Collier, Miami-Dade, Monroe counties (FSCA, dry and slide mounted, ethanol).

Diagnosis. Head, thorax and forewing veins (but not membranes) covered with red-brown spots; hunch-backed appearance; genae chubby and about as long as the vertex; immatures living in lerps on Piscidia piscipula (L.) Sarg. ( Fabaceae).

Distribution. Neotropics (several Caribbean islands, Belize, Mexico) (Ouvrard 2020), USA (southern FL)(Mead 1967)

Host plants. Piscidia piscipula (L.) Sarg. ( Fabaceae).

Comments. This species makes clam shell shaped lerps that open at the top on Piscidia piscipula and is restricted to south Florida (Mead 1967). Over half of our collections are from the Florida Keys (Monroe County).

Psyllinae Latreille, 1807 Amorphicola Heslop-Harrison, 1961